Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. As an Associate Field Engineer, you'll work with the Customer Success and Solutions Engineering teams to build technical expertise and tooling that enhance the core product and customer experience.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical point of contact for customers across their journey from evaluation to production, ensuring best practices and accelerating time-to-value
- Deeply understand customer architectures, use cases, and requirements to influence our roadmap and devise solutions that unblock and advance their goals
- Build resources to monitor customer health, proactively identifying opportunities to address risk and drive expansion
- Troubleshoot issues and deliver high-quality technical support, developing a strong command of Pinecone's product and the broader AI/ML ecosystem
- Build processes and capture knowledge to scale and automate support, success, and outreach initiatives
- Partner with Sales on technical discovery, deliver product demonstrations, and contribute to proof-of-concept evaluations
- Provide feedback and contribute as a developer to all elements of the customer experience—from tooling and integrations to documentation and internal workflows
Skills
- BS in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience
- Strong technical acumen with the ability to understand and explain APIs, cloud infrastructure, data pipelines, and enterprise software integrations
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Familiarity with the concepts of embeddings, similarity search, recommendation systems, and RAG
- Thrives in a startup environment: resourceful, adaptable, and proactive in creating solutions
- Proficiency in one or more popular programming languages (Python, JavaScript)
- Proficiency with SQL
- Experience with Retool, Datadog, or similar monitoring tools
- Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Benefits
- Comprehensive health coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources
- 401(k) Plan
- Equity award
- Flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- Annual Company Retreat
- WFH Equipment Stipend
Company Overview
- Pinecone develops a vector database that makes it easy to connect company data with generative AI models. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://www.pinecone.io.
Company H1B Sponsorship
- Pinecone has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 3 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 5 in 2023, 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.