Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

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Anticipated Position Close Date: 26-Jun-2026

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We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!

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What you can expect

Zoom is building the next generation of AI Companion, powered by Agentic Retrieval — a unified intelligence layer that enables AI agents to securely search, reason over, and act on enterprise knowledge at scale. In this role, you’ll design and develop the core retrieval and reasoning systems driving AI-powered workflows across meetings, chat, docs, and enterprise apps. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape Zoom’s AI foundation and advance how enterprises access and use knowledge.

About the Team

The Agentic Retrieval team within Zoom’s GenAI Engineering group builds a multi-tenant, permission-aware retrieval platform. It powers large-scale document and data search. The team also focuses on enterprise knowledge graph reasoning and retrieval orchestration for AI agents. We operate at the intersection of distributed systems, machine learning, knowledge representation, and large language models. Our mission is to enable AI agents to access the right information, with the right permissions, at the right time — across enterprise data sources.

Responsibilities:

  • Designing and building scalable retrieval systems using vector and semantic search for unstructured data, hybrid keyword-embedding search, enterprise data analytics, and graph-based reasoning.

  • Designing and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines for multi-step, tool-using AI agents.

  • Building indexing pipelines that transform heterogeneous enterprise data into unified retrieval-ready representations.

  • Developing ranking, relevance modeling, and evaluation frameworks to improve answer quality and grounding.

  • Working on permission-aware retrieval to ensure secure, multi-tenant isolation and fine-grained access control.

  • Partnering closely with product, infrastructure, and applied research teams to ship production-grade AI capabilities.

What we’re looking for:

  • Master’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems , or a related field.

  • 5+ years of experience in machine learning, search infrastructure, information retrieval, distributed systems, or related areas.

  • Demonstrate hands-on experience building and operating large-scale search, recommendation, or data platforms in production environments.

  • Possess understanding of:Information retrieval, Structured query systems, Knowledge graph or graph database concepts

  • Have experience building or integrating RAG systems and LLM-based applications in production.

  • Possess proficiency in one or more of: Python, Go, Java, C#, or C++.

  • Have experience with modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow) and vector databases or search engines.

  • Have experience working with enterprise data systems or multi-tenant SaaS environments is a plus.

Salary Range or On Target Earnings:

Minimum:

$177,100.00

Maximum:

$387,500.00

In addition to the base salary and/or OTE listed Zoom has a Total Direct Compensation philosophy that takes into consideration; base salary, bonus and equity value.

 

Information about Zoom’s benefits is on our careers page here

Note: Starting pay will be based on a number of factors and commensurate with qualifications & experience.

We also have a location based compensation structure;  there may be a different range for candidates in this and other locations.

Good news – this job posting is more like a marathon, not a sprint, so it could be available for a while! We're on the lookout for awesome folks to join Zoom in various similar roles. No need to rush, just hit us up whenever you're ready to apply. We're always keeping an eye out for amazing talent!

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