Research Engineer

  • Palo Alto, CA
  • Posted 45 days ago | Updated moments ago

Overview

On Site
USD 101,000.00 - 198,000.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

Unstructured Data
Semantic Search
MIT
Training
FOCUS
Collaboration
Computer Science
Machine Learning (ML)
Deep Learning
Natural Language Processing
Conflict Resolution
Problem Solving
Communication
Mentorship
Research
Innovation
ATLAS
Cloud Computing
Database
Amazon Web Services
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Platform
Microsoft Azure
Artificial Intelligence
Startups
Leadership
Recruiting
Genetics
MongoDB
Health Insurance

Job Details

About Voyage AI Team at MongoDB

Voyage AI team in MongoDB is building 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 Research Engineer 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.
Responsibilities
  • Conduct cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, with a focus on embedding models and rerankers
  • Partner with the Inference engineering team to put best-in-class models into production
  • Collaborate closely with other research scientists and research engineers
Qualifications
  • Master's degree in Computer Science
  • Strong background in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing
  • Experience building complex neural networks for language and visual understanding
  • Capable of conducting rigorous empirical studies to validate theoretical results
  • Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills
What We Offer
  • Opportunity to work on real-world problems at the cutting edge of AI research
  • Mentorship from experienced researchers and engineers
  • 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

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About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB's unified database platform-the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market-helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 customers-including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups-relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we're powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It's what makes us MongoDB.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we're committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees' wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it's like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

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MongoDB's base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB's total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: 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, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB's base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:

$101,000-$198,000 USD
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