# Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Search)

Source: https://realanalystjobs.com/job/member-of-technical-staff-machine-learning-engineer-search-perplexity-6f2eeda5
Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Search) at Perplexity, based in Belgrade. Experience level: 5 Years. Posted on 25 March 2025, read from Perplexity's own careers page (Ashby), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes.

Updated 15 November 2026.

## Key facts

- Company: [Perplexity](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/perplexity)
- Location: Belgrade
- Posted: Mar 25, 2025
- Employment type: Full time
- Experience level: 5 Years
- Source: Perplexity's careers page (Ashby), re-checked daily

## About this role

Perplexity is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to help build the next generation of advanced search technologies, with a focus on retrieval and ranking.

Responsibilities

• Relentlessly push search quality forward - through models, data, tools, or any other leverage available

• Architect and build core components of our search platform and model stack

• Train and evaluate retrieval, ranking and classification models, including LLMs

• Deploy models - from boosting to LLMs - in a scalable and performant way

• Build and optimize RAG pipelines for grounding and answer generation

• Collaborate with Data, AI, Infrastructure and Product teams to ensure fast and high quality delivery

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of search and retrieval systems, including quality evaluation principles and metrics

• Proven track record with large-scale search or recommender systems

• Self-driven, with a strong sense of ownership and execution

• Minimum of 5 years of working on search or recsys-related projects

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## How to apply

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## Perplexity

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