What are the responsibilities and job description for the ML Engineer position at Vectara?
Vectara, Inc. is looking for an experienced engineer to join its Machine Learning team. Vectara is on a mission to provide a scalable platform for scalable enterprise-ready Generative AI, helping our customers build advanced language understanding into the next generation of software systems. Founded by an ex-co-founder of Cloudera and veterans from Google AI and Google Search, Vectara offers RAG-as-a-service to a wide range of customers including leaders in their prospective industries.
Job responsibilities
- 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.
Basic requirements
Preferred requirements
Location requirements : We support remote applicants from all over the US but candidates who can come to the office 3 days a week in our Palo Alto office are preferred.
Equity and Salary :
Salary is just one component of Vectara's employee compensation. Our full-time employees are also equity owners in the company, which although not an immediate cash component, can have positive impacts on long-term total compensation for each participating employee. We would be remiss if we didn't highlight and celebrate our focus on engaging many of our employees in being economic co-owners of the business.
Vectara welcomes all. We value the collective wisdom of people from different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. Vectara has a positive and supportive culture-we look for people who are inventive and work to be a little better every single day. We seek to be smart, humble, hardworking and, above all, curious. After all, we are on a mission to find meaning.