Senior Machine Learning Engineer

About

Algolia prides itself on being a pioneer and market leader offering an AI-powered, API-First Search & Discovery platform that empowers 17,000+ businesses to compose customer experiences at internet scale that predict what their users want with blazing fast search and web browse experience. Algolia powers more than 30 billion search requests a week – four times more than Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex and DuckDuckGo combined.

Their mission is to provide their customers with a combination of market-leading keyword and natural language processing via vector search – all uniquely packaged on a single API product and supported by hyper-scale indexing and blazing fast speed. They are used by one in six online users and more than 5 million developers a month.

In 2021, the company closed $150 million in series D funding and quadrupled its post-money valuation of $2.25 billion. Being well capitalised enables Algolia to continue to invest in its market leading platform, to better serve its thousands of customers–including Under Armor, Petsmart, Stripe, Gymshark, and Walgreens, to name just a few.

At Algolia, milliseconds matter !

Job Description

Algolia was built to help users deliver an intuitive search-as-you-type experience on their websites and mobile apps. We provide a search API used by thousands of customers in more than 100 countries. Billions of search queries are answered every month thanks to the code we push into production every day.

Join the AI Search Group and help us enhance the core keyword search engine capabilities.

The AI Search Group is committed to enhancing the relevance of search results both before (Understanding) and after (Re-Ranking) a query is made.

We are seeking individuals with a strong sense of ownership and a problem-solving mindset—people who thrive on exploring new ideas and tackling challenges head-on. If you are passionate about uncovering insights and finding innovative solutions to enhance the value our customers receive from Algolia through the application of AI or other creative methods, and if you possess the grit to persevere through obstacles, we would love to hear from you!

Our team consists of engineers (partly remote), and we bring together a variety of skills and backgrounds. Your experience, knowledge, and unique perspective will contribute to this diversity and empower the team to create impactful products.

YOU WILL:

  • Lead end to end projects improving the Understanding or Re-Ranking capabilities of the search engine
  • Influence the technical roadmap, collaborating with product management, engineering management and the team
  • Collaborate with a team that includes a variety of roles ranging from Site Reliability Engineer to Machine Learning specialists with a strong focus on Data Engineering
  • Participate in the rituals of the team that is operating following Agile principles (Kanban + daily rituals + Retrospectives)

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:

  • Experience in Python
  • Experience in building, training & evaluating ML models
  • Experience leading and productionizing end-to-end Machine Learning projects
  • Sensitivity to data driven decision making, and exploring datasets with SQL
  • Knowledge of good engineering practices (testing, reviews, code design, …)
  • Excellent spoken and written English skills
  • A strong sense of ownership, pragmatism and willingness to make our products better

NICE TO HAVE:

  • Experience with NLP
  • Experience with Golang
  • Experience in building and maintaining API services
  • Experience with a cloud provider (GCP, AWS or Azure, …)

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Additional Information

  • Contract Type: Full-Time
  • Location: London
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