# Member of Technical Staff, Retrieval & Indexing at Parallel Web Systems

- Company: Parallel Web Systems
- What the company does: Web infrastructure for AI to search, extract, monitor, and reason over the world's information. Backed by Index, Khosla and Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: https://parallel.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco or Palo Alto
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-23
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/parallel/fc674743-e5ca-494f-a06e-92bc5977423f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/parallel-web-systems-member-of-technical-staff-retrieval-and-indexing/

## About the role

You will build and operate the systems that let Parallel run its own large-scale full-text index over the web. You will work across the full lifecycle: deciding what belongs in the corpus, building the searchable structures that hold it, building the signals and models that judge source quality and freshness, and serving queries against the index quickly and economically. You will anticipate bottlenecks before they appear and ensure the architecture evolves to meet increasing demand.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and professional experience
- A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
- Years of experience required will correlated with the internal job level requirements for this position

Tags: Engineering