2 months 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 builds a managed vector database and knowledge engine used by developers and ML teams to power search, retrieval, and other AI application features. It sells a cloud service with APIs and tooling for production-scale similarity search and retrieval-augmented generation. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in New York, the privately held company serves enterprises and startups building generative AI and search experiences.