Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vectara

• Vectara is seeking a Senior/Staff Platform Software Engineer with strong experience in backend development and modern DevOps practices
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Statistics, Electrical/Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• 5+/4+ years of experience after BS/MS
• Strong software engineering basics
• Basic knowledge of training and evaluating ML models
• Familiarity with the technical details of deep learning concepts, such as Transformers, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), mixture of experts (MoE)
• Proficiency in data/ML libraries such as pandas, transformers, and torch
• Hands-on experience in training ML systems end-to-end from data curation to evaluation and deployment
• Knowledge of state of the art open source models for various tasks, such as retrieval, reranking, multi-model LLMs
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams

Desirable

• In this role, you’ll work on building and scaling the core infrastructure that powers our retrieval-augmented generation platform
• You’ll help design robust services and scalable systems, with a focus on automation, observability, reliability, and performance
• Design, prototype, research and build AI systems for Vectara
• Train, evaluate and deploy ML models in the domains of Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, AI Agents, Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal Large Models (MLMs)
• Improve the quality of Vectara’s AI Agents and RAG-as-a-service platform, working on features like agentic behavior, hallucination reduction/correction, and agent orchestration
• Publish technical blogs, papers, and patents