Staff / Principal Applied AI Researcher (Agentic Search)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · Remote OK
Senior+$1.0B raised
About Nebius: Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to…
Staff / Principal Applied AI Researcher (Agentic Search)
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands · On-site
Senior+$1.0B raised
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Full-time
Competitive compensation, Career growth, Learning opportunities, Flexibility, Ownership
Posted 4d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
Drive applied research and technical direction for agent-native retrieval and ranking systems. Design multi-stage architectures and evaluation paradigms to ground LLMs in real-time web data at scale.
Requirements
Requires 8+ years of experience in applied AI, ML, or software engineering with a proven track record of shipping production systems. Strong proficiency in Python and at least one systems language like Go or C++ is essential.
Full job description
About Nebius:
Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.
Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.
Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.
We are seeking a Staff or Principal Applied AI Researcher to join a fast growing team building an agent native search platform - the web access layer for AI systems.
You can think of this as Google for AI agents: a system designed for machines, not humans. We are building agentic search, where AI systems actively plan, retrieve, evaluate, and refine information rather than simply returning results. As AI becomes the primary interface to the web, this layer will replace the role of traditional search engines.
We are designing how AI agents - not humans - retrieve, evaluate, and reason over web data in real time, under strict latency and reliability constraints. This means solving retrieval and ranking under entirely new access patterns and at significant scale, with systems operating over constantly changing, unstructured data and serving tens of thousands of production workloads 24 by 7.
This role comes with ownership over key parts of our applied AI research direction and system design, with a strong expectation of defining new approaches and shipping measurable impact in production.
What you'll work on:
Designing agent native retrieval systems optimised for machine consumption rather than human search UX
Building systems where LLMs iteratively plan, query, refine, and reason over results
Developing ranking and retrieval approaches for multi step, agent driven workflows under real world constraints
Your responsibilites:
Drive applied research and technical direction across retrieval and ranking systems
Design and evolve multi stage retrieval architectures (query understanding, rewriting, reranking, iterative retrieval)
Develop methods for grounding LLMs in real time web data at scale
Define and implement new evaluation paradigms and metrics for agentic systems, where correctness is not reducible to clicks
Lead experimentation on modern retrieval approaches (embeddings, hybrid search, reranking) and bring them into production
Analyse trade-offs across relevance, latency, and cost at scale
Work closely with engineering to deploy systems in high throughput, low latency environments
Own ambiguous problems end to end and contribute to product and research direction
Mentor engineers and help raise the technical bar of the team
Must haves:
8+ years of experience in applied AI, ML, or software engineering
Proven track record of shipping ML or AI systems to production at scale
Deep experience with search, retrieval, ranking, recommendation systems, or assistants
Strong understanding of modern deep learning, especially transformers and embeddings
Experience with LLM integrated or knowledge intensive systems
Experience designing evaluation frameworks and metrics for ML systems
Strong programming skills in Python and at least one of Go, C++, or similar
Ability to operate in a fast moving, product driven environment with high ownership and autonomy
Nice to haves
Experience with large scale search or recommendation systems
Background in agentic AI systems (agents, tool use, autonomous workflows)
Experience with RAG, multi step retrieval, or tool use
Publications, open source, or similar signals of technical depth and impact
Benefits & Perks:
Competitive compensation
Career growth and learning opportunities
Flexibility and ownership
Collaborative and innovative culture
Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
International environment and talented teams
What's it like to work at Nebius:
Fast moving - Bold thinking - Constant growth - Meaningful impact - Trust and real ownership - Opportunity to shape the future of AI
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.
If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.
Related keywords
Applied AIMachine LearningAgentic SearchLLMRetrievalRankingTransformersEmbeddingsPythonGoC++RAGCloud infrastructureGPU orchestrationInference optimizationUnstructured data
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