Job Overview
The Data Infrastructure team, within the Contextual AI platform organization, powers product development, applied research, and customers’ data-intensive workloads. The team designs, builds, and operates foundational data services at Contextual AI. This is a greenfield opportunity to shape the technical direction of the data engineering team at Contextual AI.
What you’ll do:
- Design and implement scalable services, APIs, and databases to support the processing and ingestion of petabytes of information daily.
- Architect and build streaming infrastructure, data orchestration systems, vector databases, and Elasticsearch indices.
- Collaborate with ML researchers to understand state-of-the-art (SOTA) requirements for RAG systems, translating them into service specifications.
- Work directly with product managers and application engineers to understand customer requirements for end-to-end RAG systems, and translate them into technical solutions.
- Ensure seamless integration with machine learning models and pipelines, enabling efficient model deployment and management.
- Mentor and guide junior team members, promoting knowledge sharing and professional growth.
What we’re seeking:
- Education: Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience: 5+ years in scaling Kubernetes services, distributed queuing systems, and streaming infrastructure. Proven ability to diagnose distributed vector databases and Elasticsearch failures, and design systems for low-latency retrieval of image, text, audio, and video vectors.
- Technical Skills: 5+ years of experience with infrastructure tooling such as Terraform, Kubernetes, Python, Go, or Java.
- Machine Learning: Familiarity with machine learning concepts and frameworks, including dense information retrieval.
- Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
- Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work closely with cross-functional teams
If you are passionate about building scalable data infrastructure and working on cutting-edge AI solutions, we’d love to hear from you.
Location: Mountain View, CA
Salary Range for California Based Applicants: $140,000 - $300,000 + equity + benefits (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).
Equal Opportunity
Contextual AI is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
How We Operate
- Customer obsessed. We understand our customers and prioritize solving their challenges. We do more than listen to our customers, we invent on their behalf and anticipate their needs.
- Scout mindset. We seek to find the truth as quickly as possible and to see things as they are, not as we wish them to be. We are always curious and we always look for opportunities to disconfirm our beliefs.
- Vaguely right is better than exactly wrong. Direction is more important than pinpoint accuracy. We embrace making decisions with insufficient data and focus on being approximately right by relying on anecdotes, intuition, and insights.
- Relentless pace. We move fast on all things and execute with a sense of urgency.
- Trust and respect. We are respectful and recognize the unique expertise and experience our colleagues bring. We communicate directly and assume good intent.
- Depth and mastery. We strive to become world-leading experts in our crafts and domains. We operate at high standards of excellence and are always improving.
- Live in the future. We serve as the first and best example of the future of work. We are eager and early customers of what we build. We are willing to experiment and reimagine how work is done with AI.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and equity packages
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) with employer matching
- Support for conference fees and travel
- Team offsites, celebrations, and events
- Unlimited PTO
