Parallel
Member of Technical Staff, Retrieval & Indexing
$150K–$300K
San Francisco or Palo Alto +1 · On-site · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jun 23, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco or Palo Alto
New York, New York - Experience
- Years of experience will correlate with internal job-level requirements; no specific number is stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorships
About the job
Build and operate a large-scale web index, from selecting and structuring its content to ranking sources and serving queries efficiently.
What you'll do
- Build searchable structures for a full-text web index and determine what content belongs in the corpus.
- Develop signals and models to assess source quality and freshness.
- Serve queries quickly and economically, and evolve the architecture to handle growing demand.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience.
- Relevant field demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Deep intuition in information retrieval, distributed systems, and performance tuning.
Nice to have
Pay
$150K – $300K USD base salary
AI focus
Build web-index infrastructure, signals, and models that help AI agents find relevant information; consider trade-offs between classical and neural retrieval.
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