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.
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.
43 AI roles tagged search_ranking.
| Company | Title | Sector | AI score | Other tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target | Sr. Data Scientist | Retail | 8 | Recommender systems · RAG · Agent orchestration · Tool use · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Target | Sr Applied Data Scientist - Search and Browse (Applied ML, NLP, LLMs) | Retail | 8 | Recommender systems · Vector DB · RAG · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Target | Principal Applied Data Scientist - Search and Browse (NLP, Vector Search, LLMs) | Retail | 8 | LLM observability · RAG · Vector DB · Agent orchestration · Recommender systems · Model serving |
| Walmart | Principal, Data Scientist - Personalization | Retail | 8 | Recommender systems · Model serving |
| Target | Sr Director Data Sciences | Retail | 8 | Agent orchestration · Recommender systems · RAG · LLM observability · Evals · Model serving |
| Walmart | Director, Data Science | Retail | 8 | Recommender systems · Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Guardrails · Model serving |
| Walmart | Staff, Software Engineer | Retail | 8 | Recommender systems · Agent orchestration · RAG · Vector DB · LLM observability · Model serving · Inference infra · Multimodal |
| Walmart | Distinguished, Data Scientist | Retail | 8 | Recommender systems · Agent orchestration · Tool use · LLM observability · RAG · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Target | Sr Applied Data Scientist - Personalization (applied ML, PyTorch, RecSys) | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems |
| Target | Lead Applied Data Scientist - Digital Item RecSys (applied ML, deep learning) | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems |
| Target | Sr AI Engineer-Item Science | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Walmart | Staff, Data Scientist | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems · Forecasting · Agent orchestration |
| Walmart | (USA) Principal, Software Engineer | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems · RL robotics |
| Walmart | Group Director, Product Management - Last Mile Optimization & AI | Retail | 7 | Agent orchestration · Recommender systems |
| Walmart | Principal, Software Engineer - Backend | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems |
| Walmart | SENIOR MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems |
| Walmart | Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems |
| Walmart | (IND) PRINCIPAL, DATA SCIENTIST | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems · Agent orchestration |
| Walmart | STAFF, PRODUCT MANAGER | Retail | 7 | LLM observability · RAG · Evals · Guardrails · Fine-tuning · Model serving · Recommender systems · Multimodal |
| Walmart | (USA) Principal, Software Engineer | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems · Inference infra · Model serving |
| Target | Applied Data Scientist - Search Ranking (Applied ML, LLMs, NLP) | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Walmart | SENIOR, SOFTWARE ENGINEER | Retail | 7 | RAG · Agent orchestration · Vector DB · Model serving |
| Target | Lead ML Engineer - Personalization and Item Recommendations | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Walmart | Principal, Software Engineer | Retail | 7 | RAG · Fine-tuning · Recommender systems |
| Chewy | Staff Machine Learning Engineer | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Walmart | Principal, Data Scientist | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems · Vision |
| Walmart | (USA) Distinguished, Software Engineer | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems · RAG · Vector DB · Model serving · Inference infra |
| Walmart | Staff, Data Scientist | Retail | 7 | Recommender systems · Multimodal |
| Walmart | Staff, Software Engineer | Retail | 7 | Model serving · Inference infra · Recommender systems · LLM observability |
| Walmart | Staff, Software Engineer - Backend / ML | Retail | 7 | Model serving · Inference infra · Recommender systems |