Research Scientist

Parallel Web Systems

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San Francisco or Palo Alto on site Until 8/25/2026 First posted June 26, 2026 Last posted June 26, 2026
Job description

About us

Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Our products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build best-in-class AI agents with flexible and powerful programmatic access to the web.

We've raised $230 million from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures, First Round, and Terrain to build the web for AIs. We're currently valued at $2 billion and we're forming a world-class team of engineers, designers, marketers, sellers, researchers, and operational experts to achieve our mission.

Job: As one of our Researchers - you will answer the question: how to train and scale a model that can serve a web index?

You: Have deep intuition on modern models and training. Like to argue how search, recommendations, and transformer models can converge. You care about your research being applied to product and systems that millions use.

Life at Parallel

Our team works fully in-person, between our Palo Alto HQ and San Francisco office. We’re a flat, talent-dense organization dedicated to solving technical and creative problems.

We seek like-minded individuals who share our passion for applying science, creativity, and consistency to big and complex problems with equally big outcomes. These are our values:

  • Own customer impact: It’s on us to ensure real-world outcomes for our customers.

  • Obsess over craft: Perfect every detail because quality compounds.

  • Accelerate change: Ship fast, adapt faster, and move frontier ideas into production.

  • Create win-wins: Creatively turn trade-offs into upside.

  • Make high-conviction bets: Try and fail. But succeed an unfair amount.

Compensation & benefits

  • Competitive salary

  • Generous equity

  • Visa sponsorships

  • 401K plans

  • Daily lunch & office snacks

  • Dinner at the office

  • Unlimited vacation

  • Caltrain pass reimbursement

Compensation (from employer):
$150K – $300K • Offers Equity

About this role

Summary

Research and develop AI models for web indexing and search systems.

Job title

Research Scientist

Experience level

not specified

Industry

software

Location requirements

In-person in San Francisco or Palo Alto

Salary

$150k–$300k

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

deep intuitionmodel trainingsystem design

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

web infrastructureAI modelssearchrecommendationstransformer
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Francisco, CA, USA

On-site City

Palo Alto, CA, USA

On-site City