Staff Search Retrieval Engineer

Promoted is hiring an expert in search retrieval for use in multi-stage search, feed, and ad systems used at large technology companies in the USA, like at Pinterest or Facebook. Ideal candidates will have worked in search, feed, recommendations, or ads at major USA tech companies and have experience with both embedding-based and keyword-based approaches, with multiple retrieval sources, and understand how to optimize for recall versus precision. Other excellent, relevant experiences:

• Free text search in multiple languages
• Ads targeting and pacing systems in social media (ads eng at FB, Google, Snap, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.)
• Deploying and operating in production Solr, Elastic, and other major search retrieval systems

About Promoted

Promoted optimizes marketplace search and promotes the best listings at the top to increase revenue. For example, on Airbnb, we would decide what listings you see in Airbnb search. We match millions of buyers and sellers for our customers, who are all Top 100 A16Z Marketplaces: Snackpass (#68), Hipcamp (#40), Outschool (#10), and Teachers Pay Teachers (#8). Our investors include Y Combinator and Y Combinator Continuity. We’re all ex-Facebook and Google ads engineers, and we’ve built this before together.