Lancedb
Senior Solutions Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area. Posted a month ago
The role
You will serve as a technical lead in pre-sales conversations and design solutions for customers. You will build demos and proof-of-concepts to showcase LanceDB for RAG, vector search, and feature engineering.
What you will do
- Serve as the technical lead in pre-sales conversations
- Lead technical discovery and architecture design sessions
- Build and deliver custom demos and proof-of-concepts
- Act as the bridge between customer pain points and engineering/product teams
- Partner with design partners and early adopters for onboarding and expansion
- Champion a superior developer experience regarding documentation and integration workflows
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, ML Engineer, or AI Infrastructure role, supporting AI/ML products or platforms
- Strong knowledge of AI/ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow
- Hands-on experience working with distributed systems such as Ray, Spark, or Kubernetes
- Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) including compute and storage
- Confident communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Must be based out of the San Francisco Bay Area
- Willing to travel to customer sites as needed
Nice to have
- Experience building or supporting feature engineering workflows or vector search pipelines
- Worked with feature stores (e.g., Feast, Tecton) or designed custom ML feature pipelines
- Experience in observability and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK)
- Familiar with open-source data/streaming frameworks such as Apache Spark, Flink, Delta Lake, Kafka, or Airflow
- Deep Python skills or curiosity about Rust
- Comfortable creating technical content, workshops, or presenting at meetups/conferences
- Experience deploying ML infrastructure in customer environments using tools like Terraform, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
- Supported enterprise customers or worked in a customer-facing technical capacity before
About the company
LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open-source data lake for multimodal AI. It powers applications through hyper-scalable vector search, RAG, and interactive exploration of large-scale AI datasets.