Pinecone

Pinecone

Applied AI Engineer (Full-Stack)

New York City

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TypeScriptPythonReactBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentVector DatabasesData EngineeringLLMsRAGCollaboration

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About the role

  • You'll work across the stack, from backend services and retrieval pipelines to APIs and user-facing applications, turning new AI capabilities into working solutions.
  • This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who enjoys moving quickly, experimenting with emerging technologies, and owning projects from initial idea to production.
  • You should be equally comfortable discussing architecture, writing production code, and putting together a working prototype.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and ship end-to-end AI applications using Pinecone's retrieval and knowledge infrastructure.
  • Develop full-stack solutions spanning frontend interfaces, backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and LLM integration.
  • Bring learnings from building applications back into Pinecone's product and engineering teams.
  • You don't need to check every box, but you should enjoy building software and be excited about what AI makes possible.
  • Strong software engineering background with experience designing, building, and shipping production applications.
  • Experience building APIs, integrating external services, and working with databases and cloud infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience building applications using LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, or retrieval-augmented generation.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, including modern backend frameworks and frontend technologies such as React or Next.js.
  • Experience with Pinecone or other vector databases and search technologies.

Skills

  • Pinecone is the trusted AI knowledge company.
  • Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable.

Compensation

  • Annual Company Retreat

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources
  • Flexible time off
  • Paid parental leave
  • WFH Equipment Stipend
  • Benefits and eligibility may vary by country of employment.

Company info

  • We're looking for an Applied AI Engineer who loves building real applications with AI.
  • You'll work closely with our engineering and product teams, as well as customers and partners, to explore new use cases, build reference applications, and demonstrate what's possible with Pinecone's technology.
  • The ideal candidate combines strong full-stack engineering skills with practical experience building LLM-powered applications and agentic systems.
  • Build reference applications, integrations, and reusable components that help developers and customers adopt Pinecone.
  • Work with customers, partners, and internal teams to understand real-world problems and translate them into working software.

This listing is sourced directly from Pinecone's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.