# How LinkedIn Trains AI Job Search 8x Faster with Multi-Teacher Distillation

DevFeed: [How LinkedIn Trains AI Job Search 8x Faster with Multi-Teacher Distillation](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-linkedin-trains-ai-job-search-8x-faster-with-multi-teacher-distillation-8453.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/09/linkedin-ai-multi-teacher/>)

Author: Claudio Masolo

Published: 2026-09-11T10:00:00Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [InfoQ](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/infoq.md>)

Topics: [recommendation systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/recommendation-systems.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Language models](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/language-models.md>), [sglang](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sglang.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>)

Tags: [agentic-ai-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic-ai-architecture.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-ml-data-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-ml-data-engineering.md>), [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [large-language-models](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/large-language-models.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [liger](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/liger.md>), [linkedin](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linkedin.md>), [linkedin-ai-multi-teacher](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linkedin-ai-multi-teacher.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>), [ml-data-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ml-data-engineering.md>), [news](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/news.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [sglang](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sglang.md>), [training](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/training.md>)

## AI overview

LinkedIn describes a multi-teacher distillation pipeline for AI-powered job search that trains a 0.6B-parameter ranking model. The article focuses on SGLang-based teacher serving, online and offline distillation, and training optimizations reported to produce roughly an eightfold speedup.

## Source excerpt

LinkedIn has published details of the training infrastructure behind its AI-powered job search, describing a multi-teacher distillation pipeline that compresses knowledge from large teacher models into a compact 0.6B-parameter ranking model. By Claudio Masolo