Lead Engineer, Inference Platform

MongoDB

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Location
Seattle, Washington, United States
Posted
June 16, 2026

Job Description

Weโ€™re looking for a Lead Engineer, Inference Platform to join our team building the inference platform for embedding models that power semantic search, retrieval, and AI-native features across MongoDB Atlas.ย 

This role is part of the broader Search and AI Platform team and involves close collaboration with AI engineers and researchers from our Voyage.ai acquisition, who are developing industry-leading embedding models. Together, weโ€™re building the infrastructure that enables real-time, high-scale, and low-latency inference โ€” all deeply integrated into Atlas and optimized for developer experience.ย 


As a Lead Engineer, Inference Platform, youโ€™ll be hands-on with design and implementation, while working with engineers across experience levels to build a robust, scalable system. The focus is on latency, availability, observability, and scalability in a multi-tenant, cloud-native environment. You will also be responsible for guiding the technical direction of the team, me...