Database Research Scientist
- Where you can live
- United States
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC+1
- Salary
- USD 175,000 to 235,000 per year
- Posted
- October 2, 2026
Summary from the posting
As a Research Scientist at ClickHouse Labs, you will work on high-impact problems at the intersection of database systems, distributed systems, AI, and systems software engineering while collaborating with experienced researchers and engineers. The role covers a broad range of problems across database systems research and engineering, including but not limited to query optimization, execution engines, distributed systems, consensus protocols, materialized views, indexing and data structures, benchmarking, workload analysis, and emerging agentic workloads.
In this role, you will work on leading open-source database systems (e.g., ClickHouse, PostgreSQL).
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on ClickHouse's own career page.