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PhD is preferred, MS. is a must. (5y of experience minimum)\n\nBring hands-on experience with LLMs, NLP, embeddings, or information retrieval systems\n\nHNSW and ANNs are second nature to you\n\nCare about performance, reliability, and code quality\n\nEnjoy optimizing performance bottlenecks\n\nThrive in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment\n\nExample Projects\nTrain a new embeddings model from scratch\n\nBuild and maintain an evaluations framework to measure the progress of our search engine\n\nDesign a RL framework to integrate AI preferences into our ranking algorithm\n\nOur Stack\nNode.js / NestJS\n\nPython\n\nJava\n\nPostgreSQL\n\nOpenSearch\n\nVespa\n\nApache Storm\n\nvLLM\n\nKubernetes\n\nGitHub Actions\n\nTerraform\n\nDetails\nThe ideal candidate will play a central role in our team, partnering closely with the founders to spearhead groundbreaking products. Your research expertise will shape the future of AI-powered applications and bring our vision to life.\nWe offer a flexible remote-work policy- see the details here.\nJoin us and leverage your expertise to push the boundaries of AI!\nAbout Linkup\nOur Vision\nWe believe in a future of AI agents and the agentic web. These digital entities can create more value for humanity than we ever could alone, but they depend on the internet to operate, collaborate, take action, and gather information.\nAI agents need web search. To perform well, they require information that is current, reliable, and context-specific-not the diffuse, steadily aging knowledge frozen at their last training cut-off.\nModern web search is built for humans, not AIs. Instead of trusted facts, it serves links, ads, and click-bait. People want visually engaging pages; AI systems need structured truth. An AI can absorb oceans of data, while human attention barely skims the surface. Humans think visually and intuitively; AI reasons in latent space.\nWeb 2.0 is sunsetting. The deck is being reshuffled, and the Bing-Google search oligopoly is crumbling. Indexing ever more pages is no longer the goal; semantically organizing facts for AI systems is. In the coming agentic web, Google’s ad-driven model has no natural home.\nSearch for AI must be rebuilt from the ground up. We are reconstructing the web as a rigorously structured knowledge layer, mapping every concept, entity, and claim into a coherent semantic graph. This foundation delivers verified facts and rich context to AI instantly, unlocking faster reasoning, higher accuracy, and radically more useful answers for everyone.\nHumans search Google; AI searches Linkup.\nOur Mission\nReality never stands still, and neither should intelligence. 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