ServiceNow

Tech / AI / Software

SeniorMachineLearningEngineer,SearchPlatform

mountain view, california, united states FULL TIME
The Brief

“Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search Platform at ServiceNow. Skills: Machine Learning, Generative AI, Search Platforms, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Understanding, LLMs. improve our search-based question answering systems, utilizing both traditional machine learning and cutting-edge generative AI technologies. build conversational search systems to provide instant answers to enterprise users’ questions”

What You'll Achieve.

improve our search-based question answering systems; provide instant answers to enterprise users’ questions; reshaping the enterprise search experience for millions of our customers’ employees; drive our agentic search products to the next generation of capabilities; provide value to our customers; achieve their career goals

Industry & Context.

Tech / AI / Software
Problems you'll solve

solving challenging product and engineering problems; elegant solutions

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years of engineering, 2+ years of experience as a senior engineer (technical lead) leading a team of software engineers, First-hand experience relevant to search platforms such as traditional information retrieval, search ranking and relevance, recommendation systems, or question answering systems, Background in text processing, information retrieval, natural language understanding, or machine learning

Nice to Have

Experience with (or desire to learn) large language models, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and agents, Experience in Python. Contributing to mature python libraries or platform code, including open-source repositories is a nice to have, Experience in Golang (not required)

What You'll Do.

improve our search-based question answering systems

utilizing both traditional machine learning and cutting-edge generative AI technologies

build conversational search systems to provide instant answers to enterprise users’ questions

deliver business intelligence support by combining modern information retrieval with the latest advancement in natural language understanding

accurately retrieving

and summarizing text snippets grounded in heterogeneous knowledge sources

provide technical direction and thoughtful coaching to our team of search and machine-learning engineers

drive our agentic search products to the next generation of capabilities focusing on performance and enterprise readiness

build new applications and features quickly

ship new prototypes to customers at scale

evaluate and iterate on ranking improvements in a systematic manner

enforce guarantees on quality

privacy and scalability

Develop systematic evaluation metrics and methodology for our search models

leveraging LLMs to address unique challenges in the enterprise such as security and privacy

help build a high-performing team with an inclusive and positive team culture

iterate on our interview processes

and close candidates to help grow the team

coach and mentor engineers at different levels to achieve their career goals

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

works closely with the ranking, product, design, infrastructure and data science teams; partnering with product, user experience, customer success and other engineering teams; enable ranking and product teams to contribute safely and easily to the codebase; enable product teams to build new applications and features quickly

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