Weaviate

Role Description Join us for the summer and work with some of the world’s brightest and kindest database engineers on the planet to push the boundaries of vector and hybrid search, RAG, and recommendations even further. - Paid, full-time internship at one of the most exciting companies in the database and AI space. - Post-internship career opportunities at Weaviate. - Make meaningful contributions that change how our users use Weaviate. - Work directly with experts in Databases, AI, IR, etc. - Low-level work possible: Weaviate’s core components (LSM stores, vector indexes, filtering and inverted indexes, networking, replication, etc.) are all written in-house. - Work entirely remotely from anywhere in the world. - Participate in company off-site events during your internship (Note: There is no guarantee that an off-site event will happen during the course of the internship. If it does, you’re part of it). Qualifications - Experience with statically typed languages such as C/C++, Go, Rust, or similar (prior Go experience is preferred but not strictly required). - Preferred coursework: Database-related courses, Information-Retrieval-related courses, System Design, advanced Algorithms and Data structures. - A strong sense of ownership of your work and ability to work independently. - Kindness and excellent communication skills. Requirements - For U.S. Citizens in the U.S.: - You must have all necessary documentation to be legally employed in the United States (e.g. Social Security Number) before commencing the internship. - For Foreign Students in the U.S.: - You must have a valid student visa (e.g. F-1) in place at the time of application. - You are responsible for securing the appropriate work authorization (e.g. CPT, OPT) prior to the start of your internship. - This includes coordinating with your educational institution to obtain the necessary approvals and documentation. - Please note that employment is contingent upon receiving proper authorization, and you will be required to provide proof of work eligibility before commencing the internship. - For All Other Countries: - You must have the right to work in the country you are currently living, including a residence title (visa or residence permit) if required. - You must have the required paperwork arranged in order to be able to start your employment (e.g. social security number, bank account, etc.). Example projects - Storage & Networking - Improve Filter performance at scale (roaring bitmaps, inverted indexes, etc.) - Design and implement new index types that can be used with various storage backends (NVMe, network disk, cloud storage). - Optimize hot-path code in the storage engine (Memory allocations and usage, Disk I/O, SIMD, etc.). - Use state-of-the-art data structures to improve the performance and storage footprint of existing index types. - Improve inter-node network communication by using lightweight and optimized network protocols. - Vector Indexes / Graph Algorithms - Improve query performance by approximating distances via FINGER, early exit conditions, etc. - Improve range filter performance for vector search (time-series vector search, SeRF, etc.). - Improve general filtered vector-search performance (ACORN, etc.). - Design and implement a new cloud-storage-based vector index for specific scenarios. - Information Retrieval, RAG, End-to-end applications - Fine-tune embedding models and rerankers for specific domains (adaptive fine-tuning, synthetic data generation, ColBERT). - Video embedding models and natural language search over video (CLIP, contrastive learning). - Develop new hybrid recommendations systems, combining collaborative filtering with content-based approaches (autoencoders, GNN, Matrix completion). - Optimize Model Inference (vLLM, TensorRT). - Weaviate as a library: Investigate and develop library usage of Weaviate via focusing on embedding Weaviate into the popular Golang-based Ollama inference service. Benefits - 100% remote with flexible work hours. - Competitive compensation, including paid time off. - Budget available to spend on going to conferences, co-working space, home office equipment, etc. - Work with very experienced and fun team members. - An atmosphere that encourages learning and personal growth, and that gives you lots of freedom, flexibility, and responsibilities. - You will work at the forefront of search, ML/AI, and cloud-native technologies - and all of it is open source.

Role Description You thrive in technically complex domains and know how to earn the trust of engineers. You care as much about why customers need something as what they're asking for, and you'll push back when the ask doesn't match the underlying problem. You bring structure to ambiguity without creating bureaucracy, and you treat a clear roadmap as a forcing function for good decisions, not a planning ritual. You're a strong communicator, moving fluidly between customer discovery, cross-team coordination, and GTM partnership. You're aligned with our company values and bring a collaborative mindset and a bias toward shipping. Responsibilities - Own the Weaviate Database roadmap: prioritize across engineering teams, make tradeoffs explicit, and keep the plan grounded in customer reality. - Partner with Weaviate Cloud teams to ensure the database roadmap surfaces the capabilities they depend on. - Define success metrics for major features and track outcomes post-ship. - Drive product direction across schema, storage, filtering, replication, cluster topology, and migrations. - Translate customer and operational pain into clear requirements and sequence dependency-heavy work across releases. - Translate applied research outcomes for search quality, compression, and new retrieval modes into shippable features with clear use cases. - Ensure new capabilities are positioned around real customer problems, not just technical novelty. - Shape how developers integrate with and build on Weaviate with MCP, client SDKs, and future integrations. - Run ongoing discovery with developers and enterprise customers to reduce time-to-value and bring customer context into engineering. - Partner with GTM to ensure new capabilities ship with the positioning needed to land well. Qualifications - 5+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years on a developer-facing or infrastructure product. - Proven ability to own a complex technical roadmap across multiple workstreams. - Strong written communication skills, both verbal and written. - Experience running customer discovery and translating qualitative signal into product decisions. - Comfortable working in distributed systems or data infrastructure domains. - Track record of cross-functional collaboration across engineering, design, and GTM. Nice-to-haves - Experience with databases, search infrastructure, or AI/ML developer tooling. - Familiarity with vector search, embeddings, or RAG workflows. - Experience at a developer tools or open source company. - Background working with enterprise customers alongside a self-serve or community motion. Benefits - 100% remote with flexible work hours. - Competitive compensation, including paid time off. - Budget available to spend on going to conferences, co-working space, home office equipment, etc. - Work with very experienced and fun team members. - An atmosphere that encourages learning and personal growth, and that gives you lots of freedom, flexibility, and responsibilities. - You will work at the forefront of search, ML/AI, and cloud-native technologies - and all of it is open source.

• Build and iterate on Weaviate Cloud products and product-led-growth (PLG) levers - including onboarding flows, in-product prompts, and expansion paths - with a focus on usability and feature adoption • Identify and resolve friction in the Weaviate Cloud user journey by instrumenting end-to-end flows, tracking key product metrics (activation, engagement, retention), and acting on data insights • Talk to our users directly to build firsthand empathy for the developer experience and surface insights that data alone won’t reveal • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Growth, Web, and Documentation teams to run experiments and create a cohesive user experience across all touchpoints • Contribute to frontend and backend systems that support scalable, high-quality product experiences, including code reviews, automated tests, and production issue resolution • Bring a strong sense of ownership - ship features, measure impact, and iterate quickly

• Communicate effectively and create social media content with appealing technical visualizations. • Support blog post realization. • Support on video content for our YouTube channel and other social media channels. • Explaining technical concepts in an easy and visual way to complement other content pieces. • Contributing to Weaviate Recipes/Cookbooks (Agent Skill).

• You’ll manage Weaviate's social media channels, including LinkedIn, Twitter, Threads, YouTube, and more. • You create eye-catching visuals, videos, and written content that resonates with our developers’ audience. • Staying up to date on industry trends to support social media, ads, and our blogs calendar. • Structure and organize social media planning and calendars. • Track and report on social media metrics, identifying areas for improvement. • Interact and engage with our community, maintaining the Weaviate brand voice. • Learn to leverage AI effectively to become a content marketing innovator: Use state-of-the-art AI tools to create captivating content that stands out. • Collaborate with growth, product, and engineering teams to create and execute online campaigns and follow an editorial calendar for consistent posting. • Optionally, build your own social media presence as a content creator and attend AI meetups to immerse yourself in the AI community with team support.

• Build and iterate on Weaviate Cloud products and product-led-growth (PLG) levers - including onboarding flows, in-product prompts, and expansion paths - with a focus on usability and feature adoption • Identify and resolve friction in the Weaviate Cloud user journey by instrumenting end-to-end flows, tracking key product metrics (activation, engagement, retention), and acting on data insights • Talk to our users directly to build firsthand empathy for the developer experience and surface insights that data alone won’t reveal • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Design, Growth, Web, and Documentation teams to run experiments and create a cohesive user experience across all touchpoints • Contribute to frontend and backend systems that support scalable, high-quality product experiences, including code reviews, automated tests, and production issue resolution • Bring a strong sense of ownership — ship features, measure impact, and iterate quickly.

• Own PLG Campaign Execution (60%) • Design & Execute Multi-Channel Campaigns: • Plan and execute monthly PLG campaigns targeting specific user segments • Own multi-channel campaigns end-to-end from rollout to analysis • Collaborate with engineering to launch in-app banners, modals, and notifications • A/B test messaging, timing, and channels to optimize performance • Data-Driven Segmentation: • Work with data team to identify high-value user segments • Write segmentation criteria based on product behavior • Build and maintain custom messaging lists • Validate segment quality and iterate based on results • Measure & Iterate: • Track campaign performance: open rates, click rates, conversions, primary metrics • Run retrospectives after each campaign to identify learnings • Build a continuous optimization loop: test → measure → iterate → scale • Report results to leadership with clear insights and recommendations • Build PLG Infrastructure (30%) • Campaign Operations: • Build and maintain the PLG campaign playbook • Create reusable templates for emails, banners, dev handoffs, retrospectives • Establish processes for campaign planning, execution, and measurement • Set up dashboards to track campaign health metrics • Cross-Functional Collaboration: • Partner with product and engineering to build in-product components • Work with design on campaign creative (emails, banners, modals) • Collaborate with product on identifying campaign opportunities • Align with data team on segmentation logic and tracking • Strategic Growth Initiatives (10%) • Growth Experimentation: • Identify new campaign opportunities from product data • Test new channels • Experiment with growth loops and viral mechanics • Scale what works, kill what doesn't • Voice of Customer: • Analyze user feedback from campaigns (replies, support tickets) • Surface insights to product team on friction points • Inform product roadmap with campaign learnings.

• Manage the end-to-end sales process - from initial outreach and lead qualification to complex contract negotiations and closing. • Develop and execute a strategic plan to penetrate key industries (Finance, E-commerce, Healthcare, etc.) within the EMEA region. • Conduct deep discovery to understand prospect pain points and demonstrate how Weaviate’s vector search and AI features provide a competitive edge. • Work closely with our Developer Relations and Marketing teams to leverage our massive open-source community as a source of enterprise opportunities. • Maintain accurate forecasts and CRM records (Salesforce/HubSpot) to ensure predictable revenue growth.

• Full Sales Lifecycle: Manage the end-to-end sales process - from initial outreach and lead qualification to complex contract negotiations and closing. • Territory Strategy: Develop and execute a strategic plan to penetrate key industries (Finance, E-commerce, Healthcare, etc.) within the EMEA region. • Solution Selling: Conduct deep discovery to understand prospect pain points and demonstrate how Weaviate’s vector search and AI features provide a competitive edge. • Community Engagement: Work closely with our Developer Relations and Marketing teams to leverage our massive open-source community as a source of enterprise opportunities. • Pipeline Management: Maintain accurate forecasts and CRM records (Salesforce/HubSpot) to ensure predictable revenue growth.