Senior Solutions Engineer

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Serve as the technical lead in pre-sales conversations, partnering with account executives
• ▹Lead technical discovery and architecture design sessions with prospects across AI infra, LLM ops and multimodal data pipelines
• ▹Build and deliver custom demos and proof-of-concepts highlighting how LanceDB solves RAG, vector search and feature engineering problems
• ▹Act as the bridge between customer pain points and engineering/product teams, informing roadmap priorities
• ▹Partner closely with design partners and early adopters to ensure successful onboarding and expansion
• ▹Champion a superior developer experience with a sharp focus on documentation, SDK ergonomics and integration workflows

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of experience in a Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, ML Engineer or AI Infrastructure role
• ▹Strong knowledge of AI/ML frameworks like PyTorch or TensorFlow and how they integrate with model training, fine-tuning and inference infrastructure
• ▹Hands-on experience working with distributed systems such as Ray, Spark or Kubernetes
• ▹Familiarity with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) including compute and storage such as EC2, GKE, S3
• ▹Confident communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• ▹Based in 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
• ▹Experience with feature stores such as Feast, Tecton, or designing custom ML feature pipelines
• ▹Experience in observability and monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK)
• ▹Familiarity 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

Soft skills

About the company

LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open-source data lake for multimodal AI, offering hyper-scalable vector search, advanced retrieval for RAG, and streaming and exploration of large-scale AI datasets.