Staff+ Software Engineer, VectorDB

📋 Description

• Own the core of Anthropic's vector database layer: index structures, storage layout, query
• Own production readiness - benchmarking against exact search, capacity planning, onboarding new
• Drive the recall, latency and cost trade-offs - quantization, filtered search, index build and
• Scale throughput by an order of magnitude as research and training demand grows, and work out
• Extend the retrieval stack toward hybrid retrieval - lexical search and fused ranking alongside
• Set the evaluation methodology for the system - recall targets, latency objectives, cost per query

🎯 Requirements

• Direct experience building a vector database or approximate nearest-neighbor search system that ran
• Deep knowledge of ANN index structures (graph-based, clustering-based or disk-resident approaches)
• Experience with search relevance and ranking
• Strong systems programming skills in a language such as Rust, C++ or Go, including
• Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed storage or serving systems with strict
• A track record of independently scoping and delivering ambiguous, multi-quarter technical projects