MongoDB Staff Research Scientist 

United States, California, Palo Alto 

737055996

This 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 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

• 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