Staff Research Scientist

MongoDB's Voyage AI team 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. The team includes AI researchers from Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, and CMU, with over five years of research on training embedding models. Voyage AI was recently acquired by MongoDB and is integrating its state-of-the-art embedding models with MongoDB's data platform.

We are seeking a Staff Research Scientist to join our team and contribute to the development of next-generation AI models. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on challenging problems at the intersection of machine learning research and practical deployment of large neural networks. The role can be based out of our Palo Alto office, or remotely in the United States.

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

• PhD degree in Computer Science or related field.
• At least 6 years of full-time professional experience in research or a closely 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.

MongoDB's base salary range for this role in the U.S. is $151,000—$297,000 USD. Compensation includes base and equity, and is competitive with frontier AI labs. Other benefits for eligible U.S.-based 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.

Apply through the MongoDB careers page for this role.