Pinecone · 1 week ago
Senior Research Scientist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$215K/yr - $255K/yrPinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. The role involves evaluating and implementing advanced AI and search techniques into Pinecone’s products, as well as improving existing features and educating stakeholders.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)DatabaseGenerative AISemantic SearchVertical Search
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Benefits
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
Company
Pinecone
Pinecone develops a vector database that makes it easy to connect company data with generative AI models.
Founded in 2019
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Pinecone has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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2025 (3)
2024 (4)
2023 (5)
2021 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$138MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzMenlo VenturesWing Venture Capital
2023-11-01Secondary Market
2023-04-26Series B· $100M
2022-03-29Series A· $28M
Leadership Team
Ash Ashutosh
CEO
Edo Liberty
Chief Scientist
Recent News
Dynamic Business
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