Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Algolia was built to help users deliver an intuitive search-as-you-type experience on their websites and mobile apps.

Join the AI Search Group and help us enhance the core keyword search engine capabilities.

The AI Search Group is committed to enhancing the relevance of search results both before (Understanding) and after (Re-Ranking) a query is made.

We are seeking individuals with a strong sense of ownership and a problem-solving mindset—people who thrive on exploring new ideas and tackling challenges head-on.

If you are passionate about uncovering insights and finding innovative solutions to enhance the value our customers receive from Algolia through the application of AI or other creative methods, and if you possess the grit to persevere through obstacles, we would love to hear from you!

Our team consists of engineers (partly remote), and we bring together a variety of skills and backgrounds.

Your experience, knowledge, and unique perspective will contribute to this diversity and empower the team to create impactful products.

YOU WILL:

• Lead end to end projects improving the Understanding or Re-Ranking capabilities of the search engine
• Influence the technical roadmap, collaborating with product management, engineering management and the team
• Collaborate with a team that includes a variety of roles ranging from Site Reliability Engineer to Machine Learning specialists with a strong focus on Data Engineering
• Participate in the rituals of the team that is operating following Agile principles (Kanban + daily rituals + Retrospectives)

YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU HAVE:

• Experience in Python
• Experience in building, training & evaluating ML models
• Experience leading and productionizing end-to-end Machine Learning projects
• Sensitivity to data driven decision making, and exploring datasets with SQL
• Knowledge of good engineering practices (testing, reviews, code design, …)
• Excellent spoken and written English skills
• A strong sense of ownership, pragmatism and willingness to make our products better

NICE TO HAVE:

• Experience with NLP
• Experience with Golang
• Experience in building and maintaining API services
• Experience with a cloud provider (GCP, AWS or Azure, …)