Machine Learning Engineer, Ranking & RetrievalNew$200K–$250K

The opportunity

At ClickUp, we're building the future of work: the first truly converged AI workspace unifying tasks, docs, chat, calendar, and enterprise search, all supercharged by context-driven AI. We are an AI-native company.

What you'll do

  • Train, deploy, and serve ranking models in production, owning the full ML lifecycle

  • Build ranker features, training pipelines, and offline evaluation frameworks

  • Design and scale hybrid retrieval combining lexical and vector search (including HNSW with disk offloading)

  • Run embedding inference at billions-of-documents scale

  • Improve query understanding through intent modeling and query expansion

  • Build permissions-aware retrieval that respects multi-tenant boundaries

What they're looking for

  • Create measurement frameworks to evaluate and improve search quality
  • Collaborate with Search Infrastructure, AI, and backend teams to integrate: ranking improvements across the platform
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field
  • + years of ML engineering experience focused on ranking, retrieval, or information retrieval