Join Our Mission at Vectara: ML Engineer Opportunity

Vectara is dedicated to offering a scalable platform for neural information retrieval. Our goal is to help our customers integrate advanced language understanding into the next generation of software systems. Our exceptional team, led by CEO Amr Awadallah (co-founder of Cloudera), comprises experts in neural IR, distributed database systems, and search platforms from esteemed organizations like Google, Google Research, Elasticsearch, Databricks, and Twilio.

About the Position

This role is within Vectara's machine learning team. You would be a great fit if you:

• Have a passion for language understanding using deep neural methods.
• Possess industry experience or have recently completed graduate studies in a relevant field.
• Thrive in a collaborative team setting.
• Are open to living and working in Silicon Valley. We support remote work but require availability in our Palo Alto, California, office three days a week.

Why Join Us?

Help us shape the future of information retrieval! We are looking for candidates with expertise in one or more of the following areas:

• Experience with multimodal and multilingual implementations.
• Designing dual-encoder models, transformer-based rerankers, or LLMs for information retrieval.
• Using major deep learning toolkits like Pytorch or JAX.
• Designing and developing online learning systems.
• Implementing neural approaches to open-domain QA and zero-shot IR.
• Familiarity with both sparse and dense IR methods.
• Applying machine learning techniques, including deep learning.

Desirable Extras

The following qualifications are advantageous but not required:

• Published research.
• Expertise in vector databases, including performance measurement and quantization techniques.

Join Vectara and become a part of a team that is pioneering the frontier of neural information retrieval.