Machine Learning Engineer, Vectara

• 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, we work on research but also write production code
• Knowledge of common challenges in training ML models and solutions to them
• 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
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams

Desirable

• Vectara, Inc. is looking for an experienced engineer to join its Machine Learning team
• 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 RAG-as-a-service platform, working on features like multilinguality, self-supervised learning, agentic behavior and hallucination reduction
• Publish technical blogs, papers, and patents