Vectara
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
US Remote · Senior · 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
- Company virtual happy hours and fun team building activities and more.
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
- Design, prototype, research and build AI systems for Vectara.
- Train, evaluate and deploy ML models in the domains of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, AI Agents, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Language Model (MMLLMs).
- Improve the quality of Vectara's AI Agents and RAG-as-a-service platform, working on features like agentic behavior, hallucination reduction/correction, and agent orchestration.
- Publish technical blogs, papers, and patents.
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Excellent programming skills in Python. Proficiency in data/ML libraries such as pandas, transformers, and torch.
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.
- 8+/7+ years of professional work experience after BS/MS applying machine learning to real-world problems, and crafting scalable and effective ML/AI solutions.
- Familiarity with the technical details of deep learning concepts, such as Transformers, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), mixture of experts (MoE).
- We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.
Company info
- Vectara provides a scalable platform to deploy your Enterprise AI Agents and AI Assistants with Accuracy, Security, and Explainability like no other solution.
- Our enterprise RAG Platform offers unparalleled Accuracy, Security, and Explainability by leveraging the strongest models for retrieval, embedding, reranking, an optimized LLM trained for quality, and advanced Hallucination Mitigation.
- We are the developers of the Hughes Hallucination Evaluation Model and Correction model, core to ensuring accuracy, quality, and responsible AI that is production-ready.
- This platform has allowed us to be very successful with over 100 Enterprise clients, including the likes of large US military organizations, Financial services, Healthcare, and Manufacturing.
- Our founding team includes industry veterans and experts in neural information retrieval and distributed systems from Google.
- Join us as we pursue our mission to help the world find meaning.
- People at Vectara are passionate about ensuring customers take advantage of breakthroughs in applied Artificial Intelligence (AI) to solve real-world technology and business problems today.
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