Staff Research Scientist

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...

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Palo Alto for our hybrid working model.

We are seeking a Staff 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.

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

PhD degree in Computer Science or related field
A track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications in top venues
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