Senior Software Engineer, Vector Index Research is open at Zilliz in Redwood City, CA. The posting gives a salary of $175K - $250K. Posted on Jun 22, 2026, and still on Zilliz’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.
About the role
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, quantization, compression, reranking, GPU acceleration, and AI retrieval systems Build high-performance vector indexing components, including index building, query paths, vector preprocessing, quantization…
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