In this role, you will determine Chroma’s research and development direction and carry out novel empirical research to advance the state of retrieval for AI. Building programmable memory for AI, and making it useful in production, requires much more than vector similarity search. Chroma’s mission of building robust, reliable programmable memory for AI requires novel research into retrieval, representation learning, and more. Chroma is the best positioned organization in the world to carry this research out. Read more about our applied research directions here. You have a proven research track record, and experience with research leadership. Experience with NLP, information retrieval, representation learning, and modern generative AI is desirable.