A company is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist, Search & Information Retrieval.Key ResponsibilitiesDesign and deploy large-scale information retrieval systems focusing on search performance and latency optimizationOwn end-to-end model development, including research, data engineering,evaluation, and production deploymentTranslate business and customer objectives into technical requirements and collaborate with engineering on software deliveryRequired QualificationsPhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, Information Retrieval, or a related field, or a Master's with equivalent industry experience5+ years of post-degree industry experience in building and deploying IR and NLP systems in productionPublications at recognized conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, or SIGIRHands-on experience with production Python, PyTorch, and Hugging Face TransformersExperience in large-scale information retrieval system design and search evaluation methodology