Machine Learning Engineer, Ranking & Retrieval

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field

5+ years of ML engineering experience focused on ranking, retrieval, or information retrieval

Proven full ML lifecycle ownership: training, deploying, and serving models in production

Hands-on ranker model training: feature engineering, pipelines, offline evaluation

Experience building hybrid (lexical + vector) retrieval systems

Experience running embedding inference at large scale

Strong query understanding fundamentals: intent modeling, query expansion

Permission-aware retrieval and multi-tenancy experience

Indexing large-scale user-generated content (not small or static datasets)

Hands-on experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch

Sharding, index management, and real-time ingestion at scale

Background in NLP, semantic search, or agentic retrieval

Experience with TypeScript in backend systems

At ClickUp, we're committed to building the future of productivity software.

As our Search Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the core functionality of our platform and driving our AI initiatives forward.

Join us in our mission to make the world more productive!

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