GenAI - Data Scientist (Search, Discovery)

OVERVIEW

At Proximity Works, we build AI-native products that operate at scale. We're now entering a critical phase—moving beyond baseline functionality to delivering high-quality, delightful user experiences across search, conversational AI, and multimodal systems.

This role sits at the intersection of LLMs, search, personalization, and video intelligence, with direct impact on products used by hundreds of millions of users.

What You'll Work On

• Improving conversational search quality—making responses not just correct, but intuitive, contextual, and delightful
• Contributing to the unification of traditional and conversational search, including routing logic, ranking systems, and cost optimization
• Building and integrating ranking and personalization systems, combining user context with query intent
• Developing video intelligence capabilities—scene-level understanding, embedding-based retrieval (CLIP and similar), and dynamic content stitching
• Working on reasoning over unstructured data (RAG, multi-hop reasoning), especially for high-context domains like sports and content discovery
• Designing and iterating on evaluation frameworks to continuously improve quality and performance
• Operating in fast iteration cycles, closely aligned with product and engineering teams

Key Problem Areas

• Elevating search experience from functional to "magical"
• Designing a unified search architecture across modalities and interfaces
• Balancing quality, latency, and cost in production systems
• Scaling systems while maintaining high standards (the "90 → 95" problem)

Must-Have

• Hands-on experience building and shipping LLM/GenAI-powered products (beyond standalone model training)
• Strong foundation in search, NLP, or information retrieval (ranking, query understanding, retrieval systems)
• Experience designing evaluation pipelines for generative AI (quality tracking, regression detection, metric-driven iteration)
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, iterative environments with evolving product requirements

Good to Have

• Experience with multimodal systems (video/image embeddings, CLIP, temporal video understanding)
• Background in personalization or recommendation systems, especially within search
• Experience working on quality optimization at scale
• Strong intuition for cost-efficient system design (latency, inference cost, routing strategies)

Benefits

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

About us

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world! We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore. Since 2019, Proximity has created and grown high-impact, scalable products used by 370 million daily users, with a total net worth of $45.7 billion among our client companies.

Today, we are a global team of coders, designers, product managers, geeks, and experts. We solve complex problems and build cutting-edge tech, at scale. Our team of Proxonauts is growing quickly, which means your impact on the company’s success will be huge. You’ll have the chance to work with experienced leaders who have built and led multiple tech, product, and design teams.