Associate Field Engineer at Pinecone in New York, NY

Summary: 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 Customer Success and Solutions Engineering teams to build technical expertise that enhances the core product and customer experience, engaging with stakeholders throughout the customer lifecycle. 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 Required Qualifications: - 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) Preferred Qualifications: - Proficiency with SQL - Experience with Retool, Datadog, or similar monitoring tools - Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) Required Skills: Technical acumen, APIs, Cloud infrastructure, Programming languages Important Skills: Data pipelines, Enterprise software integrations, Embeddings, Similarity search, Recommendation systems Nice-to-Have Skills: SQL, Monitoring tools, Cloud platforms, Communication skills, Adaptability, Proactivity 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