Research Engineer L4/L5 -LLMs for Search, Recommendations, and Personalization

Netflix is one of the world’s leading entertainment services with 278 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time.

The Role

Fast-paced innovation in the theory and practice of large language models (LLMs) is greatly helping to advance state-of-the-art in Search and Recommendation experiences. Hence we are looking for an exceptional applied research engineer to help us develop the technology to power future search and recommendations experiences using the latest advances related to LLMs. 

In this role, you will aid applied research and product development by conceptualizing, designing, and implementing engineering improvements related to LLMs. To be successful in this role, you need solid software development skills, a love of learning, a passion for solving problems, a bias to action, and effective collaboration with scientists. 

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of delivering quality results.
• Proven expertise in training and serving infrastructure for LLMs and other large foundation models.
• Strong problem-solving skills with knowledge of statistical methods.
• Strong software development experience in languages such as Python and Java.
• Great interpersonal skills.
• Strong communication skills - written and verbal.
• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related field.

Preferred, but not required, additional areas of experience:

• Experience as a technical leader.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams.
• Experience in Search, Recommendations, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Graphs, Conversational Agents, and Personalization.
• Experience with Spark, TensorFlow, Keras, and PyTorch.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms and large web-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in applied research in industrial settings.
• Open source contributions.
• Research publications at peer-reviewed journals and conferences on relevant topics.

Links to some of our published work:

• - Under review.
• - PaRiS Workshop - WebConf 2023.
• - RecSys 2022
• - SIGIR 2022 
• - RecSys 2021
• - SIGIR 2019

Our compensation structure consists solely of an annual salary; we do not have bonuses. You choose each year how much of your compensation you want in salary versus stock options. To determine your personal top of market compensation, we rely on market indicators and consider your specific job family, background, skills, and experience to determine your compensation in the market range. The range for this role is $100,000 - $720,000.

Netflix provides comprehensive benefits including Health Plans, Mental Health support, a 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer match, Stock Option Program, Disability Programs, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Family-forming benefits, and Life and Serious Injury Benefits. We also offer paid leave of absence programs. Full-time hourly employees accrue 35 days annually for paid time off to be used for vacation, holidays, and sick paid time off. Full-time salaried employees are immediately entitled to flexible time off. See more detail about our Benefits .

Netflix is a unique culture and environment. Learn more .

We are an equal-opportunity employer and celebrate diversity, recognizing that diversity of thought and background builds stronger teams. We approach diversity and inclusion seriously and thoughtfully. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.