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