MongoDB
Senior Research Scientist
$101K–$273K
Palo Alto +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 11, 2026
- Location
- Palo Alto
Palo Alto, CA, United States - Education
- PhD degree in Computer Science or related field
About the job
Conduct AI research and develop next-generation models, including frontier language models, embeddings, and rerankers, with a focus on information retrieval and practical deployment.
What you'll do
- Conduct research on frontier LLMs, embedding models, and rerankers.
- Innovate in information retrieval and LLM agent paradigms.
- Collaborate with research scientists, research engineers, and peers across the organization.
What they ask for
- PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- Strong background in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing.
- Familiarity with distributed training of neural networks for language and visual understanding.
Pay
$126,000 — $248,000 USD base salary
Tools
MongoDB
AI focus
Research and develop AI models, including frontier LLMs, embedding models, rerankers, information retrieval, and LLM agents; work across the model lifecycle from research to production.
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