Staff+ Forward Deployed Research Engineer — Search & Recommendations

ABOUT US

Building the ranking intelligence layer for the internet.

Sequen provides an integrated platform that pairs cutting-edge frontier ranking models with the infrastructure to run them in production at enterprise scale. The world's largest retailers, marketplaces, and travel platforms use Sequen to rank, recommend, and personalize, with an autonomous research engine that compounds model performance into revenue and margin lift measured in hundreds of millions of dollars per customer.

We are a small, highly technical, early-stage team focused on turning recent advances in AI into production-grade systems that operate under unforgiving real-world constraints. The problems we work on are deeply open-ended, where minor optimizations in algorithmic multi-stage retrieval and model routing translate directly into millions of dollars in client revenue.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Staff+ Forward Deployed Research Engineer with deep expertise in search and recommendation modeling to help us design, develop, and scale innovative ranking, embedding, and retrieval systems that power our personalized discovery platform.

In this role, you’ll have the unique opportunity