Remote Full-Stack AI Engineer for LLM Apps & RAG

Speedrun Talent Network; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

401(k) Plan

Equity award

Flexible time off

Paid parental leave

Annual Company Retreat

WFH Equipment Stipend

Job summary

Pinecone is seeking an Applied AI Engineer who loves building real applications with AI. You will work across the stack—from backend services and retrieval pipelines to APIs and user interfaces—turning new AI capabilities into working solutions.

This hands-on role requires strong full-stack engineering skills with practical experience building LLM-powered applications and agentic systems. You should be equally comfortable discussing architecture, writing production code, and delivering a working

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering background designing, building, and shipping production applications.
• Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript with modern backend/frontend frameworks.
• Experience building APIs and integrating external services.
• Ability to take a project from rough requirements to deployment.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, or retrieval-augmented generation.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship end-to-end AI applications using Pinecone’s retrieval and knowledge infrastructure.
• Develop full-stack solutions spanning frontend interfaces, backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and LLM integration.
• Build reference applications, integrations, and reusable components that help developers and customers adopt Pinecone.
• Experiment with emerging AI patterns, including RAG, agents, tool use, context engineering, and agent memory.
• Work with customers, partners, and internal teams to understand real-world problems and translate them into working software.
• Evaluate and improve the quality, reliability, latency, and cost of AI-powered applications.
• Share technical insights and best practices through code, examples, and technical content.
• Bring learnings from building applications back into Pinecone’s product and engineering teams.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

React/Next.js

APIs

Databases

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Pinecone is seeking an Applied AI Engineer who loves building real applications with AI. You will work across the stack—from backend services and retrieval pipelines to APIs and user interfaces—turning new AI capabilities into working solutions.

This hands-on role requires strong full-stack engineering skills with practical experience building LLM-powered applications and agentic systems. You should be equally comfortable discussing architecture, writing production code, and delivering a working