Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Search & Retrieval Infrastructure
- Where you can live
- US Remote
- Working hours
- Overlap with UTC-10 to UTC-5
- Salary
- USD 190,000 to 270,000 per year
- Posted
- August 5, 2026
Summary from the posting
We are hiring a senior/staff software engineer to help design and build core components of our next-generation knowledge retrieval system built for the AI era - search and retrieval infrastructure that powers high-quality, scalable, and enterprise-grade agentic systems. You’ll build the framework that allows our customers to connect knowledge-synthesized from structured and unstructured data-to modern LLM-powered applications, leveraging the world’s best-in-class vector DB supporting semantic search and hybrid retrieval. This role is ideal for someone who loves backend system architecture, distributed systems, and applied AI infrastructure.
This is a short summary. The full description, requirements and the application form are on Pinecone's own career page.