Senior Research Scientist, Pinecone
$215-255k
+ Equity award
Vector database
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Vector database
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$215-255k
+ Equity award
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the search and database technology to power AI/ML applications for the next decade and beyond.
Role
Who you are
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field
- A track record of impactful research demonstrated through publications in top-tier machine learning, theory, algorithms, search, and data science conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, SIGIR) and related journals
- Experience in being an effective team member in product centric engineering groups
What the job involves
- You will be a part of Pinecone Labs and report to Pinecone’s Chief Scientist
- Pinecone Labs is a small team dedicated to creating new AI products and advancing the state of the art on search, information retrieval and AI
- Evaluate and implement state of the art AI, IR, and search techniques into Pinecone’s knowledge products
- Improve and invent new AI, IR, and search features and capabilities
- Present and educate your team, our customers, and the community
- Consume state-of-the-art literature and learn about SOTA AI, IR, and search
- Collect data, train models, run evaluations, and present findings
- Implement POCs of new features and capabilities into the products
- Publish and present technical reports, blog posts, and academic papers
Our take
Vector databases arrived on the scene only a few years ago, but the technology has already helped power a new breed of search engines that are based on neural networks as opposed to keywords. Vector databases quickly became popular in the world of machine learning and AI and they will continue to play a significant role in the future development of AI technologies.
Pinecone is a vector database company that specializes in providing an efficient and scalable solution for high-performance vector search applications. The platform is designed to allow businesses and developers to build, deploy, and manage machine learning applications without the hassle of infrastructures.
Pinecone is providing customers around the globe with capabilities that have, up until recently, only been utilized by tech giants. Due to the increasing demand for efficient and scalable vector database solutions, Pinecone's 2024 "breakthrough" release is set for a promising future. It claims its release will lead to 50x cost reductions for companies, that will be able to bring state-of-the-art AI to the market at a faster rate. With the company creating a buzz for itself in 2023 off the back of significant funding and with various high profile partnerships (Robust Intelligence and Gathr) announced the following year, here's to hoping it can fulfil the expectations placed upon it.
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Insights
96% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$100m
SERIES B
Mar 2022
$28m
SERIES A
Total funding: $138m
Company benefits
- Company stock options
- Flexible PTO
- Medical, dental & vision plans
- Paid parental leave
- Mental health resources
- Commuter benefits
- FSA & HSA
- Flexible work hours
- Hybrid in-office/remote
- Annual team retreat
- WFH Equipment Stipend
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Edo Liberty
(CEO)Previously worked at Yahoo and Amazon Web Services in Senior Research roles.
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