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Company brief · updated 2026-10-19

LanceDB

lancedb.com · B2B

13open roles
5new in 30 days
2closed in 30 days
3remote-eligible
steadyhiring velocity

What they're building

Extending Lance and LanceDB into the wider data-processing ecosystem moderate signal

Today: "A single platform for curation, feature engineering, retrieval, and training at massive scale." (site)

Roles: Senior Software Engineer

Requirements mention: distributed Lance dataset operations · predicate pushdown · Spark · Ray · Trino · Apache Arrow · DataFusion · Parquet

Inference: the posting says the role works to 'expand the reach of Lance and LanceDB within the broader data infrastructure ecosystem'. The engines it names (Spark, Ray, Trino) suggest integrations that let those engines read and operate on Lance datasets.

Go-to-market pipeline and marketing systems moderate signal

Today: "Multimodal Lakehouse for AI" (site title)

Roles: Marketing Operations Manager · Founding Revenue Marketer

Requirements mention: lead routing · account assignment · account-based marketing · pipeline reporting · ABM infrastructure · campaign execution

Inference: the Marketing Operations Manager posting describes 'an open-source qualified lead program that turns product and community signals into sales outreach'. The Founding Revenue Marketer posting describes a demand engine 'built from the ground up'. Together these suggest an early marketing function aimed at turning open-source adoption into enterprise pipeline.

Customer-facing technical work: field engineering, partners and support moderate signal

Today: "LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open-source data lake for multimodal AI" (Senior Solutions Engineer posting)

Roles: Senior Solutions Engineer · Senior Customer Success Engineer · Partner Solutions Architect · Senior Support Engineer

Requirements mention: feature stores · vector search pipelines · RAG applications · sharding, replication, partitioning · Apache Spark · Delta Lake · performance tuning · failure modes

Inference: three Field Engineering roles and a support role suggest customer-facing technical work on production deployments and partner integrations. The Senior Support Engineer posting has been open since 2026-03-17.

Reliability, security and test hardening moderate signal

Today: "Built for Petabyte Exabyte Scale" (site heading)

Roles: Senior Product Security Engineer · Senior System Test Engineer

Requirements mention: encryption · RBAC · multitenancy · key rotation · user-managed API credentials · fault injection · fuzzing · performance testing

Inference: multitenancy, RBAC, key rotation and user-managed API credentials point to access and tenancy controls for a shared, hosted service. Fault injection and fuzzing point to testing under production conditions.

Training workflow research on the Lakehouse weak signal

Today: "One table for all your training data. performant for any workload." (site)

Roles: AI Research Engineer

Requirements mention: distributed training · tensor parallelism · end to end training flows · blobv2 · distributed indexing

Inference: a single research role; no further direction is supported by the postings.

Financial operations build-out weak signal

Today: "A single platform for curation, feature engineering, retrieval, and training at massive scale." (site)

Roles: Controller

Requirements mention: financial close · revenue recognition · general ledger management · ERP

Inference: a single Operations role; no further direction is supported.

Where the headcount is going

DepartmentOpen
Engineering6
Go-to-Market3
Field Engineering3
Research1

Technical roles dominate: Engineering (6) and Field Engineering (3) make up 9 of 13 openings, while Go-to-Market (2, including a 'Founding' marketer), Research (1) and Operations (1) are small, early functions.

Who they need

Seniority: 12 senior roles and 1 manager role.

Skills named most: Rust, Python, Kubernetes, C++, Apache Arrow, DataFusion, vector search, feature stores, PyTorch, Apache Spark, Ray, Delta Lake

Locations: United States | Canada (8 roles), United States (3), Americas or APAC (1), San Francisco Bay Area (1). 2 roles are marked remote (Senior Software Engineer, Documentation Engineer). 1 is marked not remote (Senior Solutions Engineer, San Francisco Bay Area). The other 10 do not state remote status.

How to use this

If you're applying: Most openings are technical. Rust appears in 8 roles and Python in 7, so check those first. Only two roles are marked remote: the Senior Software Engineer (Americas or APAC) and the Documentation Engineer (United States | Canada), which asks for technical writing, API references and CI-based testing of code examples. Most other roles list United States | Canada without stating remote status, so confirm with the recruiter. The Senior Support Engineer posting has been open since March 2026.

If you're selling or recruiting: Go-to-Market has 2 roles, both in United States | Canada: a Marketing Operations Manager and a Founding Revenue Marketer. Their postings describe a marketing function being built from the ground up, including an open-source qualified lead program. A call could ask about lead routing, scoring and ABM tooling; the skills tally lists HubSpot, Common Room and Clay (2 each). Five roles opened in the last 30 days against 4 in the prior 30 and 1 closed, so velocity is steady.

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Open roles (13)

TitleDepartmentLocationPosted
Senior Technical Product Marketing ManagerGo-to-MarketUnited States (remote)2026-10-21
Senior Software EngineerEngineeringAmericas or APAC (remote)2026-10-15
Marketing Operations ManagerGo-to-MarketUnited States | Canada2026-10-13
Senior System Test EngineerEngineeringUnited States | Canada2026-10-13
Documentation EngineerEngineeringUnited States | Canada (remote)2026-10-13
Senior Solutions EngineerField EngineeringSan Francisco Bay Area2026-09-22
AI Research EngineerResearchUnited States2026-09-14
Senior Product ManagerEngineeringUnited States | Canada2026-09-02
Senior Product Security EngineerEngineeringUnited States | Canada2026-08-20
Founding Revenue MarketerGo-to-MarketUnited States | Canada2026-08-18
Senior Customer Success EngineerField EngineeringUnited States | Canada2026-07-10
Partner Solutions ArchitectField EngineeringUnited States | Canada2026-07-10
Senior Support EngineerEngineeringUnited States2026-03-17