13 days ago
Base Salary
$190k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design interfaces, protocols, and tooling for AI agents and agentic workflows
- Ship end-to-end experiences across APIs, SDKs, CLI, and web interfaces
- Build AI-powered workflows, automated quality gates, and platform capabilities that increase team leverage
- Establish effective patterns for AI-assisted software development
- 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
- Help set strategy for APIs, agent interfaces, observability, and developer experience
Requirements
- At least 4 years of software engineering experience
- Experience shipping with AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot
- 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: AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Strong intuition for designing APIs that are easy for humans and AI agents to use
- 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
- 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
- Work-from-home 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.