Information retrieval systems that order results by relevance, increasingly using neural rerankers and LLM-augmented post-processing on top of traditional inverted-index retrieval. Primary AI lifecycle stage: application.
490 active AI roles across 85 companies in our index reference Search & ranking as of today.
The companies with the most active Search & ranking listings are: Amazon (94 roles), Google (41 roles), Apple (26 roles), Reddit (18 roles), Pinterest (17 roles).
Search & ranking primarily belongs to the application stage of the AI lifecycle. In current hiring, Search & ranking roles concentrate at: application (46%), agents (42%).
The sectors with the most active Search & ranking hiring are: Big Tech, Consumer, Enterprise.
Information retrieval systems that order results by relevance, increasingly using neural rerankers and LLM-augmented post-processing on top of traditional inverted-index retrieval.
Primary AI lifecycle stage: application.
As of today, 490 active AI roles across 85 companies in our index reference Search & ranking. Hiring concentrates at the application (46%) and agents (42%) stages. Most common sectors: Big Tech, Consumer, Enterprise.
177 AI roles tagged search_ranking.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Instacart | Senior Machine Learning Engineer II, Ads Response Prediction | Consumer | 9 | Fine-tuning · Recommender systems |
| Instacart | Machine Learning Engineer, PhD Intern | Consumer | 9 | LLM observability · RAG · Fine-tuning · Inference infra · Model serving · Recommender systems · Agent research · Evals |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Foundational Representations | Consumer | 8 | Fine-tuning · Multimodal · LLM observability · Recommender systems · Inference infra · Model serving | |
| Staff Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Embeddings Platform | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra | |
| Sr. Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Agentic Ads | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Recommender systems · Multimodal | |
| Instacart | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Recommendations | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Instacart | Senior Engineering Manager, Search | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra · RAG · Vector DB |
| DoorDash | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Consumer | 8 | Agent orchestration · Recommender systems · Vector DB · Model serving · Inference infra | |
| Roblox | Director of Engineering, Economy ML | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra · Multimodal |
| Snap | Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Content ML, Level 7 | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Multimodal |
| Instacart | Senior Machine Learning Engineer II, Ads Response Prediction | Consumer | 8 | Fine-tuning |
| Snap | Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Search Ranking | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving · RAG · LLM observability |
| Discord | Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Ads) | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Sr. Data Scientist, AI/ML Systems | Consumer | 8 | Evals · Recommender systems | |
| Zillow | Applied Scientist, New Construction | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · LLM observability · RAG · Model serving |
| Uber | Sr Software Engineer | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Senior Staff ML Engineer, Search & Recommendation | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra · RAG · LLM observability · Fine-tuning | |
| VP, Ads Quality Engineering | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving | |
| Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, Responsible AI– Applied Research Science | Consumer | 8 | Fine-tuning · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · Recommender systems · Multimodal | |
| Oura | Staff AI Scientist | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · RAG · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra |
| DoorDash | Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Ads & Promos Delivery | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Consumer | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · LLM observability · RAG · Agent orchestration · Fine-tuning · Model serving | |
| Instacart | Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Discovery | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Agent orchestration · Tool use · RAG · Fine-tuning · Model serving |
| Uber | Principal Engineer - Marketplace | Consumer | 8 | Model serving · Inference infra · Recommender systems |
| Roblox | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Economy | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra · Evals · Guardrails · Vision |
| Uber | Sr. Scientist, UberEats Applied AI (Machine Learning) | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Instacart | Senior Machine Learning Engineer II, Search & Recommendations Ranking | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving |
| Uber | Machine Learning Engineer II– Ranking & Recommendations | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Machine Learning Engineer II, Core Engineering | Consumer | 8 | Recommender systems |