Staff GenAI Research Scientist - Retrieval

1 hour, 11 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Data Science and Analytics
Databricks

Databricks

Databricks is the pioneering data intelligence platform, empowering organizations worldwide to solve complex data challenges with AI-driven analytics solutions.

IT Services
1K-5K
Founded 2013
$4450M raised

Description

  • Define and lead independent research agendas on information retrieval for reusable agent components.
  • Conduct experiments to validate hypotheses and benchmark approaches against state-of-the-art methods.
  • Drive research and technical strategy across enterprise retrieval and search, including workspace search and vector search.
  • Develop new retrieval algorithms for large language model systems.
  • Advance the scientific frontier in agent context, information retrieval, knowledge assistants, RAG, and embeddings.
  • Collaborate with researchers and engineers on the Enterprise Agents team to bring scientific expertise into products.
  • Work on agent benchmarks for retrieval, text embeddings, and LLM data quality.
  • Develop methods that improve model capabilities, reliability, and safety.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant experience.
  • PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
  • Strong foundation in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval.
  • Experience developing and implementing methods that extend and improve model capabilities, reliability, and safety.
  • Strong preference for first-author publications at top ML/systems conferences such as EMNLP, ICLR, ACL, and NeurIPS.
  • Preferred focus on optimization or efficiency.
  • Experience with agent benchmarks for retrieval, text embeddings, and LLM data quality.
  • Ability to work on collaborative teams with researchers and engineers.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $192,000 to $270,000 USD.
  • Eligibility for an annual performance bonus.
  • Eligibility for equity.
  • Comprehensive benefits and perks package.
  • Global company with offices around the world.

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