Remote Vector DB Architect for GenAI & Semantic Search

Zoho

United States

Remote

USD 83,000 - 165,000

Part time

9 days ago
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Job summary

Fyerx seeks an experienced Vector Database Specialist to design, configure, and optimize the storage infrastructure powering production-grade GenAI and semantic search applications.

The ideal candidate will architect highly scalable vector indexes, write high-throughput embedding ingestion pipelines, configure real-time hybrid search query spaces, and maintain low-latency vector infrastructure handling millions of embeddings.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years actively scaling high-dimensional vector databases.
  • Experience with vector index design and embeddings pipelines.
  • Familiarity with hybrid search architectures.
  • 4–8 years in data engineering or backend development.
  • Certification in Vector DB or cloud data engineer preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and govern production vector databases (Pinecone, Milvus, Weaviate, Qdrant, or pgvector) to manage complex long-term memory structures for LLM applications.
  • Build high-performance embedding ingestion pipelines, managing data chunking strategies, overlap controls, metadata schema extractions, and real-time upsert queues.
  • Optimize high-dimensional vector search spaces, fine-tuning ANN graph parameters, HNSW metrics, IVF index lists, and scalar quantization bounds.
  • Configure advanced hybrid search architectures, engineering unified retrieval flows combining vector lookups with BM25."
  • Implement strict metadata filtering schemas, constructing optimized filter patterns to speed up context retrieval times and enforce dynamic domain isolation safety parameters.
  • Monitor cluster metrics and resource optimization loops, tracking vector pod memory, index reconstruction latencies, QPS thresholds, and compute costs.
  • Collaborate with AI and Data Engineering squads to evaluate text embedding models (e.g., OpenAI, Cohere, Hugging Face) and map vector sizing to downstream runtimes.

Skills

Python
Advanced SQL
Vector databases
ANN / high-dimensional search
Data engineering
Performance tuning
Metadata filtering

Tools

Pinecone
Milvus
Weaviate
Qdrant
pgvector
Spark
dbt
OpenAI embeddings
Cloud auto-scaling

Job description

Fyerx seeks an experienced Vector Database Specialist to design, configure, and optimize the storage infrastructure powering production-grade GenAI and semantic search applications.

The ideal candidate will architect highly scalable vector indexes, write high-throughput embedding ingestion pipelines, configure real-time hybrid search query spaces, and maintain low-latency vector infrastructure handling millions of embeddings.

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