29 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
H1B Sponsor
Base Salary
$190k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable platform components for query planning, semantic search, hybrid search, metadata-aware search, and LLM generation.
- Build optimized indexing pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
- Develop backend services for semantic and hybrid retrieval, knowledge graph construction, and retrieval orchestration.
- Improve retrieval quality through evaluation and observability frameworks.
- Design APIs for internal and external users and agentic consumers.
- Optimize latency, throughput, and cost across large-scale inference and retrieval workloads.
- Drive technical direction for system reliability and security.
Requirements
- Typically 6+ years of experience shipping production-grade backends for large-scale systems.
- Demonstrated architectural depth designing high-throughput, low-latency, maintainable systems.
- Experience building high-throughput indexing pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
- Direct experience or deep theoretical knowledge of semantic search, vector databases, hybrid retrieval, Elastic, or OpenSearch.
- Understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation patterns, embedding pipelines, hybrid search, query planning, and metadata filtering.
- Expertise in at least one major language such as Go, Rust, C++, Java, or Python.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, cloud-native architectures, observability frameworks, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
- Ability to design clean APIs for human developers and autonomous agents and take ownership of ambiguous, high-impact problems.
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS platforms, retrieval evaluation frameworks, query planning, or agentic reasoning loops 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.