Senior/Staff Information Retrieval/Search Engineer

About the Role:

You.com is an innovative AI productivity tool designed to help you get more done.

The platform was founded by prominent AI researchers Richard Socher, former Chief Scientist at Salesforce and a TIME100 AI honoree for 2023, and Bryan McCann, specializing in deep learning and natural language processing.

Recognized as one of Time’s “Best Inventions” of 2022 and listed among Fortune’s 50 AI Innovators in 2023, you.com pioneered the first search engine to integrate a consumer-facing LLM with direct internet access, providing accurate, verifiable, and up-to-date responses.

Our company has grown considerably recently and obtained significant investment from leading investors to facilitate our expansion.

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. This includes 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.

Qualifications:

• 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

Nice-to-have:

• 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

Our Perks:

• 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 and 75% for dependents.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave in the US; additional time off is also considered
• 401k program, 3% match with no vesting period
• $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

You.com is an inclusive, equitable, and accessible workplace. If you require accommodation for any portion of the recruitment and hiring process, please let us know.