Research Scientist Graduate (Multi-modal Agentic Databases) - 2027 Start (PhD)

What you'll do

• Survey research and design new systems and algorithms.
• Develop, debug, and measure systems, then deploy them in production.
• Collaborate with lab members and mentors; write technical reports and publish papers.

What they ask for

• Completing or recently completed a PhD in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Strong coding ability in at least one mainstream programming language, with data structures and algorithm fundamentals.
• Ability to independently design and develop complex systems and deliver design documents, deliverables, and demo systems.
• Familiarity with state-of-the-art data management technologies.

Nice to have

• Research experience in LLMs and infrastructure.
• At least two first-author papers in conferences or journals such as SIGMOD, VLDB, NSDI/OSDI, or EuroSys.

Tools

C/C++, Python, Go, LLMs

AI focus

Research and develop AI-native multimodal database infrastructure, including agent workflows, infrastructure auto-optimization, NL-to-SQL, and semantic analysis.