Senior UX/AX Engineer

Senior UX/AX Engineer at lancedb in Americas timezones, United States.

Role Summary

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 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
• Experience building infrastructure with CSP stacks, Terraform, and k8s
• 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

Please apply for this role only if you meet all of the above qualifications, and agree with the day-to-day responsibilities.

About LanceDB

LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open-source data platform for multimodal AI. From hyper-scalable vector search to advanced retrieval for RAG, from streaming training data to interactive exploration of large-scale datasets, LanceDB is the best foundation for your AI workloads.

About the Company

ABOUT LANCEDB

LanceDB is a high-performance, open-source, cloud-native data platform built for AI-native and multimodal workflows. From vector search at multi-billion-scale to real-time retrieval, feature engineering, and analytics across large-scale datasets, LanceDB powers cutting-edge applications of machine learning and data infrastructure.

We’re building the next generation of intelligent, data-driven systems — and we’re looking for an experienced, customer-focused engineer who can help our enterprise users deploy, operate, and scale LanceDB successfully.

You’ll join a world-class team of open-source builders working on cutting-edge AI infrastructure. You’ll collaborate on systems that power next-generation AI workloads while shaping how LanceDB operates and scales production environments.

Salary: $180K – $250K • Offers Equity