Staff Research Scientist
$151k - $297k • Remote • Palo Alto
Posted 1d ago
Job Location
Palo Alto
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
AI Research Engineer
About the job
The Voyage AI team at MongoDB is building state-of-the-art embedding models and rerankers for accurate and efficient unstructured data search and retrieval, crucial for RAG, recommendation systems, and semantic search. This team, comprised of AI researchers from top universities, was recently acquired by MongoDB and is integrating its advanced embedding models with MongoDB's data platform to create powerful end-to-end solutions. We are seeking a Staff Research Scientist to contribute to the development of next-generation AI models, tackling complex challenges at the intersection of machine learning research and the practical deployment of large neural networks.
Responsibilities
- Conduct cutting-edge research in AI, focusing on frontier LLMs, embedding models, and rerankers.
- Innovate in next-generation information retrieval and LLM agent paradigms.
- Collaborate with research scientists, research engineers, and peers across the organization.
Requirements
- PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
- Demonstrated success in developing new machine learning ideas or improving existing ones, evidenced by first-author publications in top venues.
- Strong foundation in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing.
- Experience building complex neural networks for language and visual understanding.
- Ability to conduct rigorous empirical studies to validate theoretical results.
- Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work on real-world problems at the cutting edge of AI research.
- Opportunity to influence company-wide innovation and make a real-world impact with research vision.
- Exposure to the full lifecycle of AI model development, from research to production.
- Competitive compensation (base + equity) comparable to frontier AI labs.
- Equity.
- Participation in the employee stock purchase program.
- Flexible paid time off.
- 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave.
- Fertility and adoption assistance.
- 401(k) plan.
- Mental health counseling.
- Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage.
- Health benefits offerings.