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
