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Member of Technical Staff, Search Ranking

Parallel Web Systems is hiring for Member of Technical Staff, Search Ranking in San Francisco or Palo Alto. Staff level. First seen August 6, 2026; open as of November 8, 2026. Jobs taken straight from company career pages — no aggregator in between.

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Company
Parallel Web Systems
Where
San Francisco or Palo Alto
Level
Staff
First seen
August 6, 2026
Listed via
Ashby

What the posting says

THE ROLE: You will own the multi-stage ranking pipeline that narrows a web-scale set of candidates down to the handful of best passages for a query, spending the least compute necessary to do it well. You will push precision and recall across fast candidate retrieval, lightweight first-pass ranking, and heavier neural reranking, decide how much compute each query deserves, and grade everything on real usage outcomes rather than offline proxies. ABOUT YOU: Have deep intuition for relevance, feature engineering, and the trade-offs between quality, latency, and cost. Think rigorously about how…

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