Senior Research Scientist

MongoDB
Palo Alto / Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CA, United States2026-05-11

About the job

We are seeking a Senior Research Scientist to join our team and contribute to the development of next-generation AI models. This position offers a unique opportunity to work on challenging problems at the intersection of machine learning research and practical deployment of large neural networks.

Responsibilities

Conduct cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, from frontier LLMs to embedding models and rerankers.

Innovate in next-generation information retrieval and LLM agent paradigm.

Collaborate closely with other research scientists and research engineers as well as peers across the organization.

Qualifications

Minimum

PhD degree in Computer Science or related field

Strong background in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing

Familiarity with training distributed training of neural networks for language and visual understanding

Preferred

No preferred qualifications listed.