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 ParallelOur 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.
Competitive salary
Generous equity
Visa sponsorships
401K plans
Daily lunch & office snacks
Dinner at the office
Unlimited vacation
Caltrain pass reimbursement
Skills Required
- Deep intuition on modern models and training
- Experience or strong interest in search, recommendation systems, and transformer models
- Desire for research to be applied to production systems used at scale
- Willingness to work fully in-person at Palo Alto or San Francisco offices
Parallel Web Systems Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Parallel Web Systems and has not been reviewed or approved by Parallel Web Systems.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is prominently advertised as “generous” across roles, paired with competitive base pay. A reported ML Engineer package including substantial stock indicates equity is a meaningful component.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Daily lunch, snacks, and dinner are provided, with Caltrain pass reimbursement supporting commuters. In‑person offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco enable these onsite perks.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan is explicitly listed on multiple job postings. This establishes a baseline layer of retirement support alongside cash and equity.
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What We Do
At Parallel Web Systems, we are bringing a new web to life: it’s built with, by, and for AIs. Our work spans innovations across crawling, indexing, ranking, retrieval, and reasoning systems. Our first product is a set of API for AIs to do more with web data.
