Senior Software Engineer, Knowledge Engine
PineconeNew York, New York, United States
Posted February 13, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production.
Job Description
Pinecone is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design and build core components of its next-generation knowledge retrieval system. The role involves building scalable platform components, designing optimized indexing pipelines, and driving technical direction for reliability and security.
Requirements
- Design and build scalable platform components leveraging advanced retrieval via query planning, semantic and hybrid search, metadata-aware search, and LLM generation
- Design and build optimized indexing pipelines for structured and unstructured data
- Build backend services for semantic and hybrid retrieval, knowledge graph construction, and retrieval orchestration
- Improve retrieval quality through evaluation and observability frameworks
- Design APIs for internal and external user and agentic consumers
- Optimize latency, throughput and cost across large-scale inference and retrieval workloads
- Drive technical direction for reliability and security
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage
- 401(k) Plan
- Equity award
- Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- Annual Company Retreat
- WFH Equipment Stipend
