Vectara

Vectara

Machine Learning (ML) Engineer

US Remote · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 128 days ago
Distributed SystemsMongoDBVector DatabasesMachine LearningDeep LearningPandasNLPLLMsRAGAgentic AIStatisticsResearch

About the role

  • These innovations have been cited in the New York Times, Visual Capitalist, and many other leading publications.
  • Our team is a group of unquestionable all-stars in their respective fields of computer science and business from Google, Cloudera, Splunk, MongoDB, Elastic, and more.
  • We would be remiss if we didn't highlight and celebrate our focus on engaging many of our employees in being economic co-owners of the business.

Responsibilities

  • Design, prototype, research and build AI systems for Vectara.
  • Company virtual happy hours and fun team building activities and more.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in data/ML libraries such as pandas, transformers, and torch.
  • Hands-on experience in training ML systems end-to-end from data curation to evaluation and deployment.
  • PhD in Computer Science/Engineering with 1+ years of industry experience.
  • Experience as an ML engineer in an early-stage, high growth environment.
  • Expertise in the following areas:

Nice to have

  • Preferred requirements:

Skills

  • Embedding models, rerankers
  • Multimodal retrieval, question answering, and reasoning
  • Vector databases, BM25
  • Planning and reasoning in LLMs
  • Multilinguality in LLMs
  • NLG Evaluation such as hallucination detection

Compensation

  • Salary is just one component of Vectara's employee compensation.
  • Our full-time employees are also equity owners in the company, which although not an immediate cash component, can have positive impacts on long-term total compensation for each participating employee.
  • We would be remiss if we didn't highlight and celebrate our focus on engaging many of our employees in being economic co-owners of the business.
  • We value the collective wisdom of people from different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
  • Vectara has a positive and supportive culture-we look for people who are inventive and work to be a little better every single day.
  • We seek to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, curious.

Benefits

  • 100% paid Medical, Dental, Vision begins on your first day!
  • Option of Health Savings Account (HSA) or Flexible Savings Account (FSA).
  • Generous paid time off (PTO) plus paid sick time, holidays, and company rest days.
  • Improve the quality of Vectara's AI Agents and RAG-as-a-service platform, working on features like multilinguality, self-supervised learning, agentic behavior and hallucination reduction.
  • We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.
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