Staff Partner Engineer, Pinecone
+ Equity Award
The vector database to build knowledgeable AI
Job no longer available
The vector database to build knowledgeable AI
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity Award
101-200 employees
Company mission
Pinecone's mission it to make AI knowledgeable.
Role
Who you are
- To succeed in this role, you must have the technical background to learn cutting-edge developer and ML tools quickly, and to both write code yourself and advise external contributors on how to architect their integrations with Pinecone
- You must have strong business sense and be able to prioritize work that will make the greatest impact
- Our team is growing fast and our ecosystem is developing rapidly, so you must be comfortable working with a high degree of autonomy in a fast-paced environment
- 7+ years of experience working in technical partnerships for a software platform
- Experience writing, maintaining, and shipping code to deadlines with contributors outside your own company
- Proficiency with at least two programming languages (including one of either Node.js or Python), and willingness to flex and learn others where needed for integration success
- Strong business acumen and understanding of partners’ operating models in addition to Pinecone’s
- Curiosity, thoroughness, organization, enthusiasm, and self-direction
Desirable
- Experience with databases, machine learning, or search technologies
- Recent software development experience
What the job involves
- As the first Partner Engineer at Pinecone, you will help more developers discover and be able to use Pinecone successfully by building integrations with partner software companies
- As a founding team member, you will help build the practice of Partner Engineering at Pinecone, including our technical practices around integration, partner onboarding, and release and development of new features
- You will report to the Director of Developer Relations and work closely with the Business Development, Product, and Marketing teams
- Work with our BD team to build and maintain relationships with partner ISVs, particularly engineer-to-engineer between our teams
- Directly write or serve as technical advisor for scoping, writing, and maintenance of integration code. Ensure technical quality of integrations
- Work with Pinecone’s product team to onboard partners to early access features and build integrations ahead of release; be the partners’ advocate to our team
- Field technical support questions related to the integration
- Build technical enablement materials for partners where relevant
- Help measure outcomes of investment in third party integrations and plan future investments
Our take
Vector databases arrived on the scene only a few years ago, but the technology has already helped power a new breed of search engines that are based on neural networks as opposed to keywords. Vector databases quickly became popular in the world of machine learning and AI and they will continue to play a significant role in the future development of AI technologies.
Pinecone is a vector database company that specializes in providing an efficient and scalable solution for high-performance vector search applications. The platform is designed to allow businesses and developers to build, deploy, and manage machine learning applications without the hassle of infrastructures.
Pinecone has continued to build out its platform to meet the growing demands of enterprise-scale AI workloads. And most recently, the company introduced Dedicated Read Nodes (DRNs), a high-performance deployment option designed for latency-sensitive, high-throughput use cases such as billion-vector semantic search, real-time recommendation systems, and user-facing AI assistants. By offering isolated, provisioned capacity with predictable performance and costs, DRNs address a key challenge for production AI systems that require consistent low latency under heavy load.
Alongside this, Pinecone has strengthened its partnership with Microsoft, leveraging Azure's global infrastructure, security, and go-to-market ecosystem to support large-scale, production-grade AI applications. These developments signal a shift from early experimentation toward mature, mission-critical deployments, positioning Pinecones as a core piece of enterprise AI infrastructure rather than just an emerging vector database provider.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
96% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Apr 2023
$100m
SERIES B
Mar 2022
$28m
SERIES A
Total funding: $138m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellness: Medical, dental and vision plans, paid parental leave, and mental health resources offer holistic well-being coverage for you and your family.
- Compensation and Financial Benefits: Pinecone offers competitive base salary and equity compensation, opportunity to build a savings and investment portfolio, and resources to protect your family from the unexpected.
- Other Benefits: Pinecone is a hybrid in-office/remote workforce that offers Flexible PTO and WFH Equipment Stipend. Employees also enjoy attending our annual company retreat and occasional team offsites.
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Edo Liberty
(Founder & Chief Scientist)Edo was previously a Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University. Before that, he worked in Research at Amazon SageMaker/AI Labs and at Yahoo! as a Research Scientist and Director.
Ash Ashutosh
(CEO)Prior to joining Pinecone in 2025, Ash worked at Google in Products and as a Global Director of Solution Sales. He also previously founded Actifio where he served as the CEO and President for over 11 years.
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