You.com is hiring a
Senior/Staff Information Retrieval Search Engineer

Summary

The company is hiring a Senior/Staff Information Retrieval/Search Engineer to develop search infrastructure for their AI experiences. The role involves researching, building, and deploying new product experiences using the latest advances in search, information retrieval, and AI. The candidate should have excellent programming skills, independence, and at least 4 years of experience in search/information retrieval projects.

Requirements

• Excellent programming and systems understanding
• Independently driven and holding themselves to very high standards
• Minimum of 4 years working on search/information retrieval projects
• Passion for search/information retrieval (and staying up-to-date on the latest trends)
• Experience building, maintaining, and innovating production search systems
• Familiarity with lexical and semantic retrieval methods
• Deep understanding of the search stack from indexing to ranking, as well as the tradeoffs between cost, latency, and quality

Responsibilities

• Develop the core you.com information retrieval/search infrastructure and the surrounding backend infrastructure
• Drive the development of new projects from ideation to deployment, including deep expertise in large-scale infrastructure, crawling, indexing, ranking, retrieval, and evaluation of search systems
• Ability to quickly iterate on a product based on user feedback in a rapidly changing environment

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/PhD/MS in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related areas
• Strong experience shipping and scaling search experiences to a large number of users
• Ability and a deep desire to work on search-specific problems as well as other core engineering / AI problems

Benefits

• A remote-first work environment with hubs in California, NYC, and Canada that offer monthly in-person gatherings
• Unlimited PTO with 11 U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge
• Competitive health insurance plan, where 100% of the policyholder is covered
• 12 weeks of paid paternity leave in the US; additional time off is also considered
• 401k program, 3% match coming January 2025
• $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date
• $1,200 / year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals
• In-person coworking weeks 1 to 2 times a year
• Chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research