Senior Software Engineer, Vector Index Research

Company

Zilliz

Where

Redwood City, CA

Level

Senior

First seen

August 6, 2026

Listed via

Lever

What the posting says

This role sits at the intersection of research and engineering. You will read papers, evaluate new algorithms, build prototypes, and turn promising ideas into production-grade vector indexing and retrieval systems. We are looking for engineers who enjoy research, but also have strong engineering fundamentals, performance optimization skills, and engineering taste. What you'll do: Research, evaluate, and implement new vector indexing and retrieval algorithms for Milvus, Zilliz Cloud, and Vector Lakebase Read papers and track emerging work in vector search, ANN algorithms, index structures,…

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