5 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$190k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design interfaces, protocols, and tooling for AI-agent interactions with Pinecone, including MCP-based workflows
- Ship end-to-end experiences across the API, SDK, CLI, and web surfaces
- Build AI-powered workflows, automated quality gates, and other platform capabilities that increase engineering leverage
- Establish effective patterns for AI-assisted development using tools such as Claude Code and Cursor
- Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to identify user needs and deliver solutions at the appropriate abstraction level
- Build observable and auditable systems with monitoring, alerting, and verification mechanisms
- Act as a strategic partner for APIs, agent interfaces, observability, and developer experience
Requirements
- At least four years of software engineering experience
- Hands-on experience shipping with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot
- Proven ability to design and deliver versioned APIs, SDKs, or client libraries
- Proficiency building web interfaces with React or a similar technology
- Experience with at least one major cloud provider, including AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Strong intuition for designing APIs that humans and AI agents can use correctly
- Experience building or consuming MCP servers or designing APIs for agent use cases is a bonus
- Familiarity with agentic frameworks and patterns for tool use, orchestration, and agent-to-agent communication is a bonus
- Strong familiarity with a compiled language such as Rust, Go, or Java is a bonus
- Experience with large-scale open-source projects is a bonus
- Experience developing database or query engine SDKs is a bonus
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental health coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Equity award
- Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- Annual company retreat
- WFH equipment stipend
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About Pinecone
Pinecone is the knowledge infrastructure for AI at scale. Its leading vector database and knowledge engine, Pinecone Nexus, power accurate, performant AI applications for more than 9,000 customers and 800,000 developers worldwide. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable.