AI Engineering Advanced
AI Vector Database Engineer
An AI Vector Database Engineer designs, builds, and optimizes vector storage and retrieval systems that power semantic search, rec…
Demand 9.0/10
AI Risk 15%
Salary $130,000-$220,000/yr
Vector index design and tuning (HNSW, IVF, Flat, PQ, ScaNN)Embedding model evaluation and selection (OpenAI, Cohere, BGE, E5, Jina)Distributed systems architecture for high-availability vector storesQuery optimization: metadata filtering, hybrid search (dense + sparse), re-ranking +8