# Vector Databases

Skill · Data Science, Analytics and AI/ML

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/vector-databases

A vector database is a specialized data storage system designed to store and efficiently query high-dimensional vector embeddings, which represent data like text, images, or audio as numerical representations capturing semantic meaning. Machine learning engineers and AI developers use vector databases (such as Pinecone, Weaviate, or Milvus) to power similarity search, recommendation systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications for large language models. They use indexing algorithms like HNSW to enable fast approximate nearest-neighbor search at scale.

## Vector Databases in the job market

- Open roles: 60
- Employers hiring: 37
- Median stated pay: $200,000 (middle half $168,000 – $230,000), from 36 of 60 open roles — the 60% that publish a range, annualized to USD. Only some employers state pay, and the ones that do skew to California and New York, where the law requires it.
- Last checked: September 13, 2026

## Asked for alongside Vector Databases

Measured from the 60 open roles that name Vector Databases, not from a curated list.

- [Python](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/python) — 46 roles (76.7%)
- [Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag) — 32 roles (53.3%)
- [Kubernetes](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/kubernetes) — 29 roles (48.3%)
- [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/amazon-web-services-aws) — 23 roles (38.3%)
- [Docker](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/docker) — 22 roles (36.7%)
- [LangGraph](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/langgraph) — 22 roles (36.7%)
- [CI/CD](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/ci-cd) — 21 roles (35.0%)
- [Terraform](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/terraform) — 20 roles (33.3%)

## Seniority of these roles

- Entry: 1 (2%)
- Mid: 8 (15%)
- Senior: 34 (64%)
- Lead / Staff / Principal: 8 (15%)
- Management: 2 (4%)

From 53 roles whose posting states a level.

## Where Vector Databases roles are

- [New York, NY](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/new-york-ny) — 5
- [San Francisco, CA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/san-francisco-ca) — 5
- [Ashburn, VA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/ashburn-va) — 2
- [Santa Clara, CA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/santa-clara-ca) — 2
- [Arlington, VA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/arlington-va) — 1
- [Atlanta, GA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/in/atlanta-ga) — 1

Among the 27 of 60 open roles we could place on a map.

## Roles that use Vector Databases

- [Software Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/software-engineer) — 40
- [Solutions Architect](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/solutions-architect) — 3
- [AI Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/ai-engineer) — 2
- [Site Reliability Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/site-reliability-engineer) — 2
- [Software Architect](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/software-architect) — 2
- [Account Executive](https://career.thegoodapps.co/occupations/account-executive) — 1

## Employers hiring for Vector Databases

- [Accenture](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/accenture) — 12 open roles
- [SAP](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/sap) — 5 open roles
- [Zilliz](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/zilliz) — 3 open roles
- [Bristol Myers Squibb](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/bristol-myers-squibb) — 2 open roles
- [LSEG](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/lseg) — 2 open roles
- [Mastercard](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/mastercard) — 2 open roles

Related skills: [LangChain](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/langchain), [Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/retrieval-augmented-generation), [Pinecone](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/pinecone), [Embeddings](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/embeddings), [Weaviate](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/weaviate), [Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/retrieval-augmented-generation-rag), [Chroma](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/chroma), [Qdrant](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/qdrant), [Milvus](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/milvus), [Spring AI](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/spring-ai), [LlamaIndex](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/llamaindex), [AI Orchestration](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/ai-orchestration)

## Open roles requiring Vector Databases (60)

- [Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cohere/b0bcef37-1d20-414f-aade-c54942d63df9/application) at [Cohere](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/cohere) — Full-time, United States, New Jersey, Boston, Canada, New York, Washington, DC, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal · Remote, CA$175,000 – CA$385,000 (listed on Cohere's own careers site)
- [Lead AI Architect](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/29c1655f-3069-4c2d-9079-766375f7fd3c/lead-ai-architect-at-cigna) at [Cigna](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/cigna)
- [Senior AI Engineer, Legal - USA Remote](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/9dad8ccb-96c0-4f3c-8118-83eb2cb56f61/senior-ai-engineer-legal-usa-remote-at-beckman-coulter) at [Beckman Coulter](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/beckman-coulter) — Full-time, Remote, $185,000 – $200,000
- [Master - SAP AI Engineering Architect (f/m/d)](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/e2466ac2-084d-408f-92a3-ef1c01e47362/master-sap-ai-engineering-architect-f-m-d-at-sap) at [SAP](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/sap) — Full-time, Walldorf, DE, 69190
- [Software Engineer, Sr. Consultant - Fullstack GenAI Enablement](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/78911008-72c9-4f5e-a989-c183e9c5409e/software-engineer-sr-consultant-fullstack-genai-enablement-at-visa-inc) at [Visa Inc.](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/visa-inc) — Full-time, Ashburn, VA, $152,200 – $243,700
- [Senior AI Application Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/967a5eff-45e2-4344-8600-51bb584574a6/senior-ai-application-engineer-at-bristol-myers-squibb) at [Bristol Myers Squibb](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/bristol-myers-squibb) — Full-time, $137,530 – $183,319
- [Lead Python AI Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/701711e3-64e7-4e5c-a197-afb536ef620b/lead-python-ai-engineer-at-accenture) at [Accenture](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/accenture)
- [Staff, Data Science & Applied AI](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/0b07a27c-52a0-4e6d-87c7-bfa30c6c6b6f/staff-data-science-applied-ai-at-warner-bros-discovery) at [Warner Bros. Discovery](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/warner-bros-discovery) — Atlanta, GA
- [Senior Media Platform Engineer](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/6b5e4a58-05b1-4755-9a99-e95139e64df7/senior-media-platform-engineer-at-supercast) at [Supercast](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/supercast) — Full-time, $143,000 – $173,000
- [Applied AI Engineer - VLSI Design](https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/efb06f25-2bdc-4d4f-8a1a-381dd8473288/applied-ai-engineer-vlsi-design-at-nvidia) at [NVIDIA](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/nvidia) — Santa Clara, CA, $136,000 – $264,500

All 60 open roles: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs?skills=8aae2e88-3585-48b7-8bb9-c617bce9721c