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.
18 AI roles tagged search_ranking.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robinhood | Machine Learning Engineer | Fintech | 8 | Recommender systems |
| PayPal | Director, Director, ML Engineering & Agentic Systems | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Model serving · Recommender systems |
| PayPal | Principal Machine Learning Engineer | Fintech | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Gusto | Head of AI-Native Talent Systems | Fintech | 8 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Interpretability · Synthetic data · Agent research |
| Block | Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Personalization | Fintech | 8 | Recommender systems · Agent orchestration · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Block | Staff Applied Machine Learning Engineer - Intelligent Data, Signals & Systems | Fintech | 7 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra · RAG · Agent orchestration · Evals |
| Visa | Digital Senior Manager, Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) | Fintech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Multimodal · Frontier research · Interpretability · Synthetic data · Agent research · RL post-training |
| PayPal | Sr Machine Learning Engineer | Fintech | 7 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Robinhood | Senior Data Scientist, ML (Brokerage) | Fintech | 7 | Recommender systems |
| Mastercard | Director of Data Science (AdTech) | Fintech | 7 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Brex | Staff Product Manager, Growth | Fintech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Evals |
| Brex | Staff Product Manager, Growth | Fintech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Evals |
| Brex | Staff Product Manager, Growth | Fintech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Evals |
| Brex | Staff Product Manager, Growth | Fintech | 7 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Evals |
| SoFi | Senior Product Manager, Personal Loans New Initiatives | Fintech | 5 | Recommender systems |
| PayPal | Principal, Experience Architecture & AI Innovation | Fintech | 5 | Agent orchestration · Tool use · Evals · Guardrails · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Vision · Audio & speech · Frontier research · Interpretability · Synthetic data · Agent research · RL post-training |
| Ramp | Software Engineer, Growth Platform | Fintech | 5 | Agent orchestration · LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems |
| Upstart | Senior Engineering Manager, Marketplace | Fintech | 5 | Model serving · Recommender systems |