Our Head of Product Engineering, Erran, recently chatted with two of our eng leaders Gokulraj and Raghavan about how we reimagined search by using LLMs. Check their conversation chat as we get into the nuts and bolts of this innovation.
At its core, good search is really about intent. When people look for the right candidate or connection, they don’t think in titles or filters. They think about the kind of experience they need, the problem they’re trying to solve, or the person who can help them move forward. That insight shaped how we reimagined search at LinkedIn. By using large language models to better understand professional context like skills, career paths, and how people actually talk about their work, we moved past keyword matching to complex semantic matching. With AI‑powered People Search, members can now find the right people faster and with much more context, simply by searching in their own words. I'm excited to announce that after a lot of testing and iteration, we’re making this available broadly to members across the U.S. Listen to my chat with Gokulraj Mohanasundaram and Raghavan Muthuregunathan about how we applied our takeaways from building Job Search to People Search. It shows how one breakthrough can unlock others when you build with flexibility and member value in mind.