Principal Research Scientist, Database Systems
Core
Advance the state of the art in database systems through fundamental and applied research to impact MongoDB's products.
Role type
Principal Research Scientist (Database Systems)
Builds
Novel database systems and architectures leveraging modern hardware features
Domain
Database systems, distributed systems, performance engineering
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Query optimization, storage engines, indexing, multicore processing, database architecture, performance engineering, hardware-aware optimizations, empirical study design
Preferred skills
SIMD parallelism, GPU acceleration, building research prototypes
Technologies
MongoDB Atlas, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure
Responsibilities
Conduct innovative research in query optimization, indexing, storage engines, and performance; Design and prototype novel database systems; Collaborate with Engineering to translate research into product solutions; Publish in top-tier conferences (VLDB, SIGMOD); Build and mentor a research group of 2-3 researchers
Seniority
Principal, strategy & mentorship
