LanceDB FDE

Senior Solutions Engineer

  • Location San Francisco Bay Area
  • Compensation 180,000 – 250,000 USD / year
  • Type FullTime
  • Team Field Engineering
  • Seniority senior
  • Posted 2026-09-22

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role details

Serves as technical lead in pre-sales conversations, leads technical discovery and architecture design sessions, and builds custom demos and proof-of-concepts.

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  • Customer site:yes — deployed at customer
  • Travel:customer-facing; travel not stated

Skills

PythonRustPyTorchTensorFlowRAGKubernetesDockerTerraformAWSAzureGCPSparkRay

Excerpt from the original posting

About LanceDB 
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.
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.
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.
Your Responsibilities Will Include 
- 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.

- Lead technical discovery and architecture design sessions with prospects across verticals including AI infra, LLM ops, and multimodal data pipelines.

- Build and deliver custom demos and proof-of-concepts to highlight how LanceDB solves challenging RAG, vector search, and feature engineering problems.

- Act as the bridge between customer pain points and our engineering/product teams—informing roadmap priorities with real-world feedback.

- 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 
- 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.…

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