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Indexed corpus
Make this concrete enough that another engineer can understand what you built and why.
CAREER PROJECT · Intermediate · 1–2 weekends
Semantic Search Engine
Index a real corpus, implement semantic retrieval and compare it with keyword baselines.
EmbeddingsVector searchEvaluationAPIsRanking
DEFINITION OF DONE
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Search UI/API
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Benchmark queries
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Baseline comparison
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Latency notes
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RESUME / PORTFOLIO FRAMING
Describe what you actually did.
Built and evaluated semantic search against keyword baselines using a repeatable relevance benchmark.
Use this as a starting structure, then replace it with your real implementation details, metrics and constraints. Do not claim outcomes you did not measure.
STRETCH GOALS
Go deeper if the core is already solid.
Hybrid ranking
Add only if it strengthens the engineering story instead of delaying a finished, deployable core.
Reranker
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Query analytics
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