Principal Research Scientist, Database Systems
Core
Conduct fundamental and applied research to advance database systems, focusing on query optimization, storage engines, and performance.
Role type
Principal Research Scientist (Database Systems)
Builds
Novel database systems and architectures leveraging modern hardware features
Domain
Database Systems / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | research
Required skills
Query optimization, storage engine design, indexing methods, multicore processing, SIMD parallelism, GPU acceleration, database architecture, performance engineering, hardware-aware optimizations, empirical study design
Preferred skills
Building research groups, mentoring junior researchers
Technologies
AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, MongoDB Atlas
Responsibilities
Design and prototype novel database systems; collaborate with engineering to translate research into products; publish in top-tier conferences (VLDB, SIGMOD); build a research group of 2-3 researchers; mentor junior researchers
Seniority
Principal, strategy & mentorship
