
Spice.ai is a open source data and AI inference engine. Build AI apps with SQL query federation, acceleration, search, and retrieval for AI grounded in enterprise data.

Spice.ai is a open source data and AI inference engine. Build AI apps with SQL query federation, acceleration, search, and retrieval for AI grounded in enterprise data.
Product: Open-source data and AI inference engine for building data-grounded applications
Headquarters: Seattle
Founders: Luke Kim; Phillip LeBlanc
Notable funding: $1M seed (Oct 2021)
Tech: Core engine implemented in Rust; supports federated SQL, search, and LLM inference
Bridging developer workflows and enterprise data to create data-grounded AI applications and agents.
Technology, Information and Internet
$1M
Seed round reported in October 2021
“Backed by a mix of venture firms and angels including Madrona Venture Group, Picus Capital, TA Ventures, Elysium Venture Capital, Nat Friedman, and Mark Russinovich”
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Building data-driven AI applications and agents is too complex, even for advanced developers.
This new generation of applications need fast, secure access to data across disparate systems, the ability to search and reason over that data, and infrastructure that’s reliable enough to run in production. Today, teams often need to piece together query engines, search systems, caches, and AI tooling, adding significant complexity along the way.
At Spice AI, we simplify this by unifying query federation, search, and AI into a single runtime for building intelligent applications. Our mission is to make building AI-powered software as easy building a modern web application and help developers build the next generation of applications. We offer both open source and fully managed cloud deployments.
For a deeper dive into the vision, watch Founder and CEO Luke Kim's CMU Databases talk on Spice.ai OSS at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyM-ec1lKfU and read his Materialized View interview at https://materializedview.io/p/building-a-cdn-for-databases-spice-ai.
At Spice AI, we hire for MEI: Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence. We're looking for exceptional, ambitious builders who are driven to solve hard problems and push the boundaries of what's possible for AI.
This role requires a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with customers and partners, accelerating adoption through direct engineering contributions. Responsibilities include deploying, optimizing, and extending Spice.ai solutions in production environments, while collaborating on product improvements.
If open source, distributed systems, and real-world search & AI deployment drive you, apply.
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About Spice AI Founded in June 2021 by Microsoft and GitHub alumni Luke Kim and Phillip LeBlanc, Spice AI creates technology to help developers build intelligent applications and agents that learn and adapt.
Before co-founding Spice AI, Luke was the co-creator of Azure Incubations in the Office of the Azure CTO, where he led cross-functional engineering teams to create and develop technologies including Dapr and OAM.
Spice AI is backed by some of the top industry angel investors and leaders, including Nat Friedman, Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure, and Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, who is also on the board.
Spice AI also has notable VC backing from Madrona Venture Group, Basis Set Ventures, Founders' Co-op, and Picus Capital.
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We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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