Mountain View, CA

Salary
$139,700–$216,500from the description
Posted
Jul 15, 2026
Location
Mountain View, CA
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A management role leading a team of machine learning engineers focused on search ranking and relevance within AI-powered enterprise search products. The work centers on improving retrieval quality, LLM-based summarization, and RAG pipelines, while guiding end-to-end model development from data synthesis through production deployment. Suited to someone with deep applied ML experience in ranking or relevance who has also managed senior engineers and driven technically ambitious projects.

Senior level · 8+ years · San Diego, CA · Master's required · Full-time

Must have (6)
Python, Go or C++LLMsRAGmachine learningsearch relevance / rankingML model deployment
Nice to have (2)
feature engineeringdata pipelines

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 25 people in the San Diego, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 7–35

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What gives you an edge
RAG8%machine learning12%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
Python51%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $211,286 (middle half $169,099–$267,976). This posting is about at that midpoint.

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (7)

This is a people-management role (Engineering Manager title, with explicit responsibilities for recruiting, hiring, mentoring, managing timelines and budgets, and supporting Staff-level engineers), so 11-3021 is the primary SOC. 15-2051 is listed as the runner-up given the deep ML/AI technical content.

The JD requires a Master's degree in Computer Science or related field; a Ph.D. is noted as a plus but not required.

The 8+ years figure is for applied machine learning experience; the JD also requires 3+ years in technical leadership or management roles within that span.

Python, Golang, and C++ are listed together as a single 'proficiency in programming languages such as' requirement — Python is used as the primary name with Golang and C++ as alternatives.

The role is described with flexible/remote/in-office work personas ('Work Personas') but no specific persona is assigned in the posting; remote=false is set conservatively given the San Diego headquarters context and the ambiguous language.

Compensation range of $139,700–$216,500/year is explicitly stated as base pay for this location, plus equity and variable compensation.

The title carries no explicit seniority level word, so the title states no level. The actual scope (managing Staff+ engineers, 8+ years required, org-wide search quality ownership) supports a Senior band — long experience requirements and management scope at this level are typical Senior/Director at large tech companies, not Principal, as the role reports into a broader org rather than setting company-wide technical direction.

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