Senior Research Scientist

MongoDB • Palo Alto, CA

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About The Position

Voyage AI team in MongoDB is building a best-in-class, general-purpose, domain-specific, and fine-tuned embedding models and rerankers to enable accurate, efficient unstructured data search and retrieval for RAG, recommendation, semantic search, and more. It is backed by a strong team of AI researchers from Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, and CMU, who have conducted over five years of cutting-edge research on training embedding models. Voyage AI was acquired by MongoDB recently, and is now integrating the SOTA embedding models with MongoDB's data platform to create powerful end-to-end solutions. Position Overview We are seeking a Senior Research Scientist to join our team and contribute to the development of next-generation AI models. This position offers a unique opportunity to work on challenging problems at the intersection of machine learning research and practical deployment of large neural networks.

Requirements

• PhD degree in Computer Science or related field
• Strong background in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing
• Familiarity with training distributed training of neural networks for language and visual understanding

Responsibilities

• Conduct cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, from frontier LLMs to embedding models and rerankers.
• Innovate in next-generation information retrieval and LLM agent paradigm.
• Collaborate closely with other research scientists and research engineers as well as peers across the organization.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on real-world problems at the cutting edge of AI research
• Opportunity to utilize research vision to innovate the entire company and make real-world impact
• Exposure to the full lifecycle of AI model development, from research to production
• Our compensation (base + equity) for this position is competitive with frontier AI labs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees