Machine Learning Engineer - AI Engagement

$200,000 - $280,000/Yr

Unclassified - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Francisco, CA

About the position

Perplexity is looking for experienced Machine Learning Engineers to enhance its answer machine's engagement capabilities. The role focuses on innovating ways to create an engaging user experience through an infinite scroll of knowledge, leveraging the company's existing features like Related Questions.

Responsibilities

• Continue to build upon our industry leading engagement system (Related Questions) to continually surface new topics for users to explore.
• Work cross functionally across engineering, growth, and product teams to prioritize the right experiments to run.
• Deliver end-to-end machine learning solution to address critical product challenges.
• Own the full stack machine learning system and optimize algorithms and infrastructure to improve engagement performance.

Requirements

• Proven experience with large-scale LLMs and Deep Learning systems.
• Strong programming skills; versatility is a plus.
• Self-starter with a willingness to take ownership of tasks.
• Passion for tackling challenging problems.
• Minimum of 2 years of working on relevant projects.

Nice-to-haves

• PhD in Machine Learning or related areas.
• Experience building distributed systems.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
• Includes a 401(k) plan.