Pinecone
Applied AI Engineer (Full-Stack)
$190K–$270K
New York City +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Location
- New York City
US Remote
About the job
Build and ship full-stack AI applications using Pinecone’s retrieval and knowledge infrastructure, from prototypes through production.
What you'll do
- Develop end-to-end applications across frontend, backend, APIs, data pipelines, and LLM integration.
- Build reference applications, integrations, and reusable components; collaborate with customers, partners, and internal teams to address real-world problems.
- Experiment with AI patterns and improve application quality, reliability, latency, and cost.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering background designing, building, and shipping production applications.
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, with experience using modern backend frameworks and frontend technologies such as React or Next.js.
- 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.
Nice to have
- Experience with Pinecone or other vector databases and search technologies.
- Experience building agentic applications, agent memory systems, or complex RAG pipelines.
Pay
USD $190K – $270K (base salary)
Tools
Python, TypeScript, React, Next.js, LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, RAG
AI focus
Build LLM-powered applications and agentic systems; experiment with RAG, agents, tool use, context engineering, and agent memory, and evaluate application quality, reliability, latency, and cost.
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