Database Research Scientist

What you'll do

• Develop and evaluate algorithms, data structures, and architectures for database systems.
• Build research prototypes and production implementations with engineering teams.
• Analyze workloads and performance data; design rigorous benchmarks and communicate results through reports, open-source work, and publications.

What they ask for

• Master's/Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field, with research experience in databases, distributed systems, systems software, or machine learning systems.
• Strong publication record at leading peer-reviewed research venues, with work relevant to databases or systems.
• Experience with database internals or other large systems codebases.
• Proficiency in C, C++, Rust, Zig, or a comparable low-level language.

Nice to have

• Experience developing or operating database systems in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with large language models, reinforcement learning, learned optimization, or machine learning and systems.

Pay

$175K – $235K USD base salary

Tools

ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MySQL, C, C++, Rust, Zig, AWS

AI focus

Research may involve emerging agentic workloads and machine learning systems; preferred areas include large language models, reinforcement learning, and learned optimization.