LanceDB

United States | Canada

Senior UX/AX Engineer at LanceDB

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Posted 3 months ago
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Company snapshot

LanceDB

https://lancedb.com/ provides a multimodal vector database designed to support rapid development of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agents, and hybrid search engines, enabling efficient management of diverse AI data and workloads.

Information Technology & Services Technology Publishing SAAS
Founded
2022

Quick Summary

Role Overview

This engineer focuses on delivering optimal user and agent experiences for the LanceDB multimodal lakehouse platform. You will bridge the gap between user and agent interfaces while building scalable backends for enterprise-level data management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Optimize user and agent experiences across the entire LanceDB platform
  • Drive parity between user experience and agent experience initiatives
  • Build scalable backends for LanceDB Enterprise to support billion-scale datasets
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform-wide usability
  • Manage and explore multimodal data through innovative interface designs
  • Utilize technologies like Rust, Typescript, and Python to deliver results

Requirements Snapshot

  • At least eight years of professional software engineering experience
  • Background in building frontend and backend components for large-scale data platforms
  • Proficiency in Typescript, React, next.js, and building CLIs or APIs
  • Proven ability to lead ambiguous projects with minimal supervision
  • Experience with concurrency, multitenancy, and open source communities

Expected Impact

Success in this role will result in a platform that offers compelling experiences for managing multimodal data, leading to increased adoption and usage. By improving both user and agent interfaces, you will enable researchers to curate petabytes of data more efficiently.

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Job Description

About LanceDB

AI advances at the speed of its research, and research moves at the speed of its data. LanceDB is the AI-native Multimodal Lakehouse: one system where a researcher curates petabytes of video, audio, and every signal derived from them with a few lines of Python, and the next training run starts as fast as the next idea. Customers like Runway, Midjourney, and Netflix build the future of AI on LanceDB, from frontier and world models to robots and autonomous vehicles.

About the Role

  • Engineer focusing on providing optimal user and agent experiences on the LanceDB platform.

  • Takes high-level direction (e.g., “identify where UX is significant ahead of AX and drive more parity”) and drives to results

  • Success looks like a LanceDB platform that incorporates compelling user and agent experiences for exploring and managing their multimodal data, enabling more adoption and increased usage.

What You’ll Do

  • Work with the rest of engineering to optimize user and agent experience across their parts of the platform.

  • Build scalable backends for LanceDB Enterprise to support user and agent experiences across billion-scale datasets.

  • Our tech stack: Rust, Typescript, React, Python, k8s, Terraform, CSPs

What We’re Looking For

  • 8+ years as a software engineer

  • Experience working on frontend and backend parts of large-scale data platforms (e.g., databases, data infra, ML/AI systems), including work on concurrency and multitenancy

  • Experience crafting UIs using Typescript, React/next.js/Vercel, CLIs, and APIs

  • Experience building elegant user-oriented and agent-oriented experiences

  • Demonstrated ownership of ambiguous projects with minimal guidance

  • Strong written and verbal communication (can drive alignment across teams)

  • Comfortable using data (metrics, experiments, usage) to guide decisions

  • Experience contributing to or working with open source communities

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