Staff Research Scientist

MongoDB

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Remote
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Salary
$151,000–$297,000 / yr
Posted
89 days ago
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This role $224k
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This role pays more than 55% of similar roles. Most pay $175,157–$254,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $224k versus about $215k for comparable roles.

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About MongoDB

MongoDB is a leading American software company that develops and provides commercial support for a popular, source-available document database. Designed to handle unstructured and structured data natively, its platform is purpose-built for modern cloud applications, analytics, and AI experiences.

MongoDB currently has 311 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $126,000–$226,000 across 95 roles with salary data.

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As a Staff Research Scientist on the Voyage AI team, you will contribute to the development of next-generation artificial intelligence models. You will conduct cutting-edge research in areas including frontier LLMs, embedding models, and rerankers while innovating within information retrieval and LLM agent paradigms. Your daily work involves collaborating with research scientists and engineers to solve complex problems at the intersection of machine learning research and the practical deployment of large neural networks. The role requires a deep background in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing to build complex neural networks for language and visual understanding. You will perform rigorous empirical studies to validate theoretical results. This work focuses on creating specialized embedding models and rerankers to enable accurate, efficient unstructured data search and retrieval for RAG, recommendation systems, and semantic search.

What does a Research Scientist earn?

Median $216250 from 42 postings across 13 companies.

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Skills

Machine Learning Deep Learning Natural Language Processing LLMs Embedding Models Rerankers Information Retrieval Neural Networks MongoDB RAG Semantic Search

What you'll do

  • Conduct cutting-edge research on frontier LLMs, embedding models, and rerankers.
  • Innovate new technologies for information retrieval and LLM agent paradigms.
  • Develop next-generation AI models for the MongoDB data platform.
  • Perform rigorous empirical studies to validate theoretical machine learning results.
  • Manage the full lifecycle of AI model development from research to production.
  • Solve complex problems at the intersection of machine learning research and large neural network deployment.

What we're looking for

  • PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Track record of innovation in machine learning demonstrated by 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.
  • Ability to conduct rigorous empirical studies to validate theoretical results.
  • Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.

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