Senior Research Scientist

Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. More than 9000 customers across various industries have shipped AI applications faster and more confidently with Pinecone's developer-friendly technology. Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital.

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.

• 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.

• Comprehensive health coverage including Medical, Dental, Vision

• Free mental health therapy sessions; free One Medical, Tela-doc, and Health Advocate subscriptions

• Cost-savings on gynecology, fertility, and family-building care

• Equity award

• 401(k)

• Flexible time off

• Paid parental leave

• Annual Department Retreat

• WFH Equipment Stipend

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are the cornerstone of everything we do at Pinecone. Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every one of the qualifications in a job description. Our top priority is finding the best candidate for the job and if you are interested in the position, we would encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you meet every one of the qualifications listed in this posting. All qualified applicants will receive considerations for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.