# AI Research Engineer at LanceDB

- Company: LanceDB
- What the company does: The multimodal lakehouse for AI, accelerating large-scale data curation and feature engineering so teams can build better models faster. Backed by Y Combinator and CRV.
- Company website: https://lancedb.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $255K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/lancedb/d72f807c-7d73-4356-8f49-4597293aa5ef
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lancedb-ai-research-engineer/

## About the role

As the AI research engineer at LanceDB, you'll work with the research team to perform fairly open ended research, focused on end to end training flows across different AI domains, showcasing how LanceDB can be used to accelerate research flows. This is an opportunity to pursue your research interest as an engineer, and have a meaningful impact on raising awareness and significantly improve the product.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience in training deep learning models, not limited to LLM, ideally have worked with video, action, world models before
- Proven track record of training SOTA models in an industry vertical
- Strong experience in building and maintaining popular OSS repos
- Demonstrated ability to map user feedback from noise to key deliverables
- Excellent prioritization skills and demonstrate execution efficiency
- Strong sense of product GTM, demonstrate ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution

Tags: Research