
Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. More than 5000 customers across various industries have shipped AI applications faster and more confidently with Pinecone's developer-friendly technology. Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital. For more information, visit pinecone.io.

Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. More than 5000 customers across various industries have shipped AI applications faster and more confidently with Pinecone's developer-friendly technology. Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital. For more information, visit pinecone.io.
Product: Managed, production-grade vector database (serverless) for semantic search, RAG, recommendations
Founded: 2019
Founder: Edo Liberty
Total funding: USD 138,000,000
Headquarters: New York
Vector search and retrieval infrastructure for AI applications (semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation, recommender systems).
2019
Software Development
USD 10,000,000
Company announced coming out of stealth with this seed round.
USD 28,000,000
USD 100,000,000
Round reported to bring valuation to USD 750M; participants included ICONIQ Growth, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital.
“Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth, Menlo Ventures, Wing Venture Capital”
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About Pinecone Pinecone is the leading vector database for building accurate and performant AI applications at scale in production. Pinecone's mission is to make AI knowledgeable. More than 9000 customers across various industries have shipped AI applications faster and more confidently with Pinecone's developer-friendly technology. Pinecone is based in New York and raised $138M in funding from Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ, Menlo Ventures, and Wing Venture Capital.
About the Team and Role: We’re hiring a Staff Developer Advocate to own the Pinecone community —online and in-person—with a particular focus on building a strong SF/Bay Area presence. This role is for a senior, hands-on technical communicator who can build developer relationships at scale, run high-signal programs, and translate community needs into product feedback and compelling learning experiences.
To succeed in this role, you must be able to build and teach with Pinecone’s AI products—showing developers how to create reliable, scalable AI applications where knowledge and retrieval are central. You’ll translate best practices into practical learning experiences through tutorials, short-form videos, docs contributions, hackathon mentorship, and social posts. Because the team and customer base are scaling quickly, you should be comfortable operating with high autonomy and strong judgment in a fast-paced environment.
If you’re excited about:
Then we want to talk to you!
Responsibilities: Community Programs (Global)
Events (SF/Bay Area)
Technical content + assets
Create and maintain hands-on technical assets (sample apps, demos, code walkthroughs) aligned to Pinecone’s core developer use cases:
RAG systems and retrieval quality
Knowledge management patterns using Assistant and other incubating products
Platform/infra patterns for scale and reliability
Publish content across Pinecone channels and external platforms, grounded in what the community is actually trying to build.
Requirements:
Perks & Benefits:
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are the cornerstone of everything we do at Pinecone. Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every one of the qualifications in a job description. Our top priority is finding the best candidate for the job and if you are interested in the position, we would encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you meet every one of the qualifications listed in this posting. All qualified applicants will receive considerations for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, veteran status, and any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local anti-discrimination laws.
Compensation Range: $180K - $230K