# Member of Technical Staff, Search Ranking 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/bc715d40-ec81-4d8d-8a5a-92db5227679c
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/parallel-web-systems-member-of-technical-staff-search-ranking/

## About the role

You will own the multi-stage ranking pipeline that narrows a web-scale set of candidates down to the handful of best passages for a query, spending the least compute necessary to do it well. You will push precision and recall across fast candidate retrieval, lightweight first-pass ranking, and heavier neural reranking, decide how much compute each query deserves, and grade everything on real usage outcomes rather than offline proxies.

## 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