Parallel
Member of Technical Staff, Search Ranking
$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 depend on internal job level requirements; no specific number stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorships.
About the job
Own and improve a multi-stage web search ranking pipeline, balancing relevance, latency, and compute cost while evaluating performance against real usage outcomes.
What you'll do
- Improve candidate retrieval, first-pass ranking, and neural reranking for web passages.
- Allocate compute per query to balance ranking quality, latency, and cost.
- Evaluate ranking performance using real usage outcomes.
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.
Pay
$150K – $300K (base salary)
AI focus
Build ranking and retrieval systems that provide high-quality web passages for AI agents.
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