Box
Machine Learning Engineer III, Search Relevance
Redwood City, CA, United States · Mid
Sponsorship not specified$176k-$220kDetected 1 day ago
PythonJavaC++ScalaDistributed SystemsElasticsearchAWSGCPAzureKubernetesTerraformCI/CDKafkaMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchData EngineeringLLMsA/B TestingCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- We help companies thrive in the new AI-first era of business.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and iterate on components for ranking, retrieval, and recommendations that improve measurable relevance and latency.
- Develop reliable, observable microservices and near real-time indexing pipelines across distributed systems.
- Own well-scoped projects from design to rollout, writing clear design docs, tests, and operational runbooks.
- Document patterns and contribute to team best practices that raise the bar on code quality and reliability.
- 3+ years of industry experience building backend or distributed systems, with production ownership of services or data pipelines.
Requirements
- LLM familiarity helpful but not required.
- If you are head-over-heels about this role but unsure if you meet all the requirements, we encourage you to apply!
Nice to have
- Exposure to search, ranking, recommendations, or applied ML in production
- understand the basics of training-to-serving workflows.
- Experience with data pipelines, message queues, or streaming systems (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub) and near real-time processing.
- Familiarity with cloud-native microservices, CI/CD, observability, and performance tuning.
- BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with Elasticsearch, Solr, Lucene, or custom search systems
- understanding of inverted indexes and scoring functions.
- Familiarity with IR fundamentals (BM25, TF-IDF, multi-stage retrieval) and query understanding.
Skills
- WHAT IS BOX?
- Box (NYSE:BOX) is the leader in Intelligent Content Management.
- Box is headquartered in Redwood City, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Compensation
- Actual base salary (or
- OTE if commissionable role) is dependent upon factors such as:
- United States Pay Range
- $175,500 - $219,500 USD
Benefits
- This role is also eligible for equity and benefits.
- For more information, check out our benefits and perks.
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, and any other protected ground of discrimination under applicable human rights legislation. Box strives to respect the dignity and independence of people with disabilities and is committed to giving them the same opportunity to succeed as all other employees. Inclusiveness is core to our culture at Box, and we strive to ensure you get the most from your interview experience.
- Box makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please complete this form. Reasonable accommodations may include scheduling adjustments, document dictation and beyond.
- Notice to applicants in Los Angeles: Box, Inc and its related branches will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the Los Angeles Fair Chair Ordinance. The Fair Chance Ordinance is provided here.
- Notice to applicants in San Francisco: Box, Inc and its related branches will consider for employment, qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chair Ordinance. The Fair Chance Ordinance is provided here.
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