Vectara is on a mission to provide a scalable platform for neural information retrieval, to help our customers build the next generation of semantically-aware search systems. Our founding team includes industry veterans (Amr Awadallah, co-founder of Cloudera), and experts in neural IR and distributed systems from Google.

This position is for strong backend software engineers with an interest in advanced applications of AI, machine learning, and neural networks to language understanding.

Come help us build the future platform for information retrieval!

### **Qualifications**

- Expertise in Java (collections, concurrency)
- Experience in designing and building distributed systems
- Comfortable with Linux and Docker
- Interest and background in any of these areas is a big plus: gRPC, Protobuf, Kubernetes, AWS, Lucene, OAuth2, Kafka, Cryptography, ML
- Interest and willingness to learn concepts in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep neural networks
- Ability to proactively identify and solve engineering problems
- Good interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written
- A self-starter

### **Responsibilities**

- Participate in the design and development of high-performance distributed applications, from requirements analysis to production
- Constantly improve software quality (documentation, code reviews, refactoring, testing etc.)
- Analyze and improve application performance
- Search for simple and robust solutions to complex tasks
- Collaborate with a distributed team of developers

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.

Software Engineer (Egypt)

Software Engineer (Pakistan)

Vectara is on a mission to provide a scalable platform for neural information retrieval, helping our customers build advanced language understanding into the next generation of software systems. Our stellar team includes CEO Amr Awadallah, cofounder of Cloudera, experts in neural IR, distributed database systems, and search platforms from organizations including Google, Google Research, Elasticsearch, Databricks, and Twilio.

This position is with Vectara’s machine learning team. You’ll be a good fit if:

1. You have a passion for working on language understanding with deep neural methods.

2. You have prior industry expertise, or have just completed graduate studies in this area.

3. Excited about working in a collaborative team setting.

4. You are open to living and working in Silicon Valley. While we support working from home, you should be open to the idea of working as a team in our office in Palo Alto, California three days a week.

Come help us build the future of information retrieval!

### **Ideally, you will have expertise in one or more of the following areas:**

- Experience with multimodal and multilingual implementation.
- Design of dual-encoder models, or transformer based rerankers, or LLMs for information retrieval.
- Experience with a major deep learning toolkit like Pytorch or JAX.
- Design and development of online learning systems.
- Neural approaches to Open domain QA and Zero-shot IR.
- Familiarity with sparse and dense IR methods.
- Machine learning techniques, including, but not limited to, deep learning.

### **The following are plusses, but not required:**

- Published research.
- Vector database expertise, including performance measurement and quantization techniques.

AI/ML Engineer

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Vectara is The Trusted GenAI Platform for All Builders - Retrieval Augmented Generation-as-a-Service (RAGaaS) to Power Your Busiiness - Put GenAI into Action.

Vectara is an end-to-end platform for product builders to embed powerful generative AI features into their applications with extraordinary results. Built on a solid hybrid-search core, Vectara delivers the shortest path to a correct answer/action through a safe, secure, and trusted entry point. Vectara is a platform for companies with moderate to no AI experience that solves use cases, including conversational AI, question/answering, semantic app search, and research & analysis. Vectara provides an end-to-end SaaS solution abstracting the complex ML Operations pipeline (Extract, Encode, Index, Retrieve, Re-Rank, Summarize). Vectara is built for product managers and developers with an easily leveraged API that gives full access to the platform's powerful features. Vectara’s “Grounded Generation” allows businesses to quickly, safely, and affordably integrate best-in-class conversational AI and question-answering into their application with zero-shot precision. Vectara never trains on your data, allowing businesses to embed generative AI capabilities without the risk of data or privacy violations.

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