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Senior Solutions Engineer

LanceDB · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

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About LanceDB

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.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Solutions Engineer who blends deep technical understanding of AI/ML infrastructure with excellent communication and solution-building skills. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to prospective customers, design partners, and strategic accounts—bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI engineering and real-world business use cases.

What they're looking for

  • You thrive in a fast-paced, startup environment and enjoy working with high-caliber teams
  • You have 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, and how they integrate with infrastructure for model training, fine-tuning, and inference
  • Hands-on experience working with distributed systems such as Ray, Spark, or Kubernetes
  • Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) including compute and storage (e.g., EC2, GKE, S3)
  • Confident communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and able to translate complex infrastructure into actionable solutions
More about this role

LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open-source data lake for multimodal AI. From hyper-scalable vector search to advanced retrieval for RAG, from streaming training data to interactive exploration of large-scale AI datasets, LanceDB is the best foundation for your AI application, and powers some of the most groundbreaking applications and challenging requirements today.

We are looking for a Senior Solutions Engineer who blends deep technical understanding of AI/ML infrastructure with excellent communication and solution-building skills. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor to prospective customers, design partners, and strategic accounts—bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI engineering and real-world business use cases.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of technical depth and customer interaction, and who enjoys crafting solutions, demos, and integrations that showcase LanceDB’s strengths in production environments.

Serve as the technical lead in pre-sales conversations—partnering with account executives to scope, solution, and articulate the value of LanceDB for customer-specific workflows.

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