Vectara

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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