Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A Senior UX/AX Engineer is sought to improve experiences for both human users and AI agents. You will translate high-level product direction into measurable improvements, collaborate across engineering, and help create compelling ways to explore and manage complex multimodal data.
Highlights
Senior engineering role focused on improving both user and AI-agent experiences, with broad ownership, cross-functional collaboration, and the opportunity to shape how people and intelligent agents interact with complex multimodal data.
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 resultsSuccess 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 engineerExperience working on frontend and backend parts of large-scale data platforms (e.g., databases, data infra, ML/AI systems), including work on concurrency and multitenancyExperience crafting UIs using Typescript, React/next.js/Vercel, CLIs, and APIsExperience building elegant user-oriented and agent-oriented experiencesExperience building infrastructure with CSP stacks, Terraform, and k8sDemonstrated ownership of ambiguous projects with minimal guidanceStrong written and verbal communication (can drive alignment across teams)Comfortable using data (metrics, experiments, usage) to guide decisionsExperience contributing to or working with open source communities
