Principal Machine Learning Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Tue, Jun 16, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Architecting and scaling the AI agents facing platform, the full-time Principal Machine Learning Systems Engineer will lead the evolution of a hybrid search capability and agentic retrieval layer, ensuring high-quality results and reliability in a remote or hybrid work environment.
Key responsibilities
- Own the technical direction of the evolution from a vector/semantic search platform to a hybrid search capability
- Ensure low latency, high reliability, and cost efficiency for serving both human users and AI agents at enterprise scale
- Build and operate production search, ads, or recommendation systems while addressing reliability and latency challenges
Required qualifications
- 7+ years of experience as a software developer
- Deep experience in building and operating production search, ads, or recommendation systems at scale
- Hands-on experience with GenAI systems, including shipping agents and LLM-powered applications
- Expertise in hybrid search, including building indexes that combine vector/semantic and full-text/lexical retrieval
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