Posted by employer 5 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 4 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 hour ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Education
- PhD
Not disclosed in this posting: years of experience, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Senior Research Scientist at MongoDB's Voyage AI team focuses on advancing AI models, particularly in the areas of embedding models and information retrieval. This role requires a strong foundation in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing, along with experience in training neural networks. Ideal candidates are those with a PhD and a passion for applying research to real-world challenges. The team, composed of top-tier researchers, is dedicated to integrating cutting-edge AI solutions with MongoDB's data platform.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 4 months ago — first seen on Joblaze May 13, 2026. Last confirmed on MongoDB's careers page October 9, 2026.
- Salary band is below the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$190,000).
- Starts above 9% of 141 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States that list AI/ML we track (median $180,000 across 54 companies). See AI/ML salary trends
- AI/ML appears in 42.8% of 538 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States; Natural Language Processing appears in 2% of 538 comparable senior ai/ml roles in United States.
Quick facts
- What's the salary range?
- MongoDB lists $126,000–$248,000 for this role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing.
- What seniority level is this role?
- MongoDB targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Research Scientist role at MongoDB.
From the original posting
About Voyage AI Team at MongoDB
Voyage AI team in MongoDB is building a best-in-class, general-purpose, domain-specific, and fine-tuned embedding models and rerankers to enable accurate, efficient unstructured data search and retrieval for RAG, recommendation, semantic search, and more. It is backed by a strong team of AI researchers from Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, and CMU, who have conducted over five years of cutting-edge research on training embedding models. Voyage AI was acquired by MongoDB recently, and is now integrating the SOTA embedding models with MongoDB's data platform to create powerful end-to-end solutions.
Position Overview
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.
We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Palo Alto for our hybrid working model.
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
- 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
What We Offer
- Opportunity to work on real-world problems at the cutting edge of AI research
- Opportunity to utilize research vision to innovate the entire company and make real-world impact
- Exposure to the full lifecycle of AI model development, from research to production
- Our compensation (base + equity) for this position is competitive with frontier AI labs
MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Req ID: 2273430550
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
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