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machine learning distributed systems search personalization retrieval📋 Description
- Lead and scale Upwork's search, recommendations, and distribution systems.
- Drive architecture for high-performance retrieval and ranking.
- Partner with product, data science, and infra to define strategy across discovery surfaces.
- Champion AI-driven personalization with reliable performance.
- Implement engineering practices that enable high velocity, quality, and autonomy.
- Hire and mentor engineering managers across multiple teams.
🎯 Requirements
- 10+ years leading engineering teams in search, recommendations, or large-scale systems.
- Deep expertise in relevance modeling and vector retrieval with production impact.
- Strong ownership, excellence, and customer-centric leadership.
- Drive organizational clarity and scalable processes across workstreams.
- Adaptive AI fluency: integrating AI into engineering workflows.
🎁 Benefits
- Opportunity to shape core user experiences at scale.
- Potential for Upwork employment and benefits after hub establishment.
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