LanceDB
LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open source database for multimodal AI. From hyper scalable vector search to advanced retrieval for RAG, from streaming training data to interactive exploration of large scale AI datasets, LanceDB is the best foundation for your AI application.
Series ASan Francisco, California35 people
3 of 12 roles
Roles are read from LanceDB’s Ashby every hour and disappear here as soon as they close there.
LanceDB hiring insights
Counted from every role read from its board, compared with every startup listed on firsthires.live.
Key findings
- LanceDB has the 617th most open roles of 2,932 startups hiring on firsthires.live.
- 12 open roles is 1.2× the average Series A startup here (10.4).
- 83% of openings are in Engineering, then Marketing (8%).
- Most roles are senior (58%). None are tagged for graduates or interns.
- With a team of about 35, these openings would grow headcount by up to 34%.
- Median posted pay of $215k is 30% above the Series A startup median ($165k).
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- Engineering pay here (median $215k) is 17% above the market median for Engineering ($183k).
- 100% of its roles post pay, against 42% across all listed startups.
- 25% of its roles are fully remote (market: 23%).
- 13 roles added in the last 30 days; 1 closed in the last 90.
- Its roles stay open for a median 14 days before closing (market: 47 days).
- A typical open listing here is 51 days old, against 2 months across the site.
Hiring momentum
Momentum scoreToo little data
50 is flat. Blends the 4-week change, the 12-week trend and net roles added.
- Added, last 4 weeks
- 00%
- vs 0 in the 4 weeks before
- Added last week
- 00%
- Week before: 0
- Weekly trend
- +0.00
- Roles/week, per week · R² 0.00
- Net roles, 4 weeks
- +0
- 0 added − 0 closed
- Forecast this week
- 0
- Holt exponential smoothing
- Average week
- 0.0
- σ 0.0 · CV —
- 4-week refresh rate
- 0%
- New roles ÷ open roles
- 4-week churn
- 0%
- Closed roles ÷ open roles
- Median time listed
- >90 days
- 9% close within 30 days
Week of 3 AugThis week (so far)
100%at 7 days91%at 30 days91%at 60 days91%at 90 days
Momentum, explained
- LanceDB hasn’t added enough roles in the last few months to read a trend yet.
Hiring history
- Roles ever listed here
- 13
- Roles added in 30 days
- 13
- Roles added in 90 days
- 13
- Roles closed in 90 days
- 1
- Median time a role stays open
- 14 days
- Market: 47 days
- Tracked since
- Oct 2026
- Rank by open roles
- #617
- of 2,932 hiring startups
- Openings per current employee
- 0.34
Volume and freshness
- Open roles
- 12
- Listed in the last 7 days
- 1
- 8% of open roles
- Listed in the last 30 days
- 4
- 33% of open roles
- Typical listing age
- 51 days
- Oldest: 8 months
Pay
- Median posted pay
- $215k
- Annual USD, range midpoint
- Middle half of pay
- $212k–$215k
- 25th to 75th percentile
- Roles that post pay
- 100%
- 12 of 12
- Mention equity
- 0%
Work, level and access
- Fully remote
- 25%
- Say they sponsor visas
- 0
- Graduate and intern roles
- 0
- Median experience asked
- 8 yrs
Breakdowns
13
MayJunJulAugSeptOct
By the month firsthires.live first saw each role.
- 1Engineering1083%
- 2Marketing18%
- 3Product18%
- 1Senior758%
- 2Mid level325%
- 3Manager217%
- 1Not stated867%
- 2Remote325%
- 3Onsite18%
- 1United States1083%
- 2Americas18%
- 3San Francisco Bay Area18%
- 1Full-time12100%
- 1Engineering650%
- 2Field Engineering325%
- 3Go-to-Market217%
- 4Research18%
$150kLow$212k25th$215kMedian$215k75th$255kHigh
$115kLow$115k25th$165kMedian$213k75th$215kHigh
Pay is each role’s posted range converted to annual US dollars, midpoint. See every LanceDB role.