Senior Documentation Engineer

As the Documentation Engineer at LanceDB, you will make Lance and LanceDB easier to understand, adopt, and use in production. You'll work at the intersection of engineering, technical writing, and developer experience, turning complex data infrastructure concepts into clear explanations and working examples. You'll partner closely with engineering, product, and our open-source community to document new features, build runnable examples, and keep guidance accurate as the product evolves. This role will own documentation as part of the product, with a particular emphasis on content that both developers and AI agents can discover, understand, and use reliably, while also building the tooling that keeps it accurate.

Responsibilities

Create and maintain quickstarts, tutorials, conceptual guides, API references, and troubleshooting documentation for Lance and LanceDB; Design documentation agents can use reliably, including structured API descriptions, explicit prerequisites, complete examples, and clear error and recovery guidance; Evaluate documentation through agent-driven tasks to find where missing context or ambiguous instructions prevent agents from completing workflows correctly; Build runnable examples and sample applications demonstrating data ingestion, vector search, filtering, indexing, and multimodal data management; Use AI coding assistants and other AI tools to research the codebase, draft and revise content, generate examples, and automate maintenance, verifying outputs against product behavior and tested code; Maintain documentation tooling and automate checks for code examples, API references, links, and content quality; Partner closely with engineering and product teams to document new features alongside releases and keep existing guidance aligned with product changes; Develop and continuously improve documentation structure, navigation, and search; Use community questions, support feedback, and documentation usage to identify gaps and prioritize improvements; Represent LanceDB with open-source contributors, reviewing documentation changes and establishing clear contribution guidelines

Requirements

8+ years of experience in documentation engineering, developer-focused technical writing, software engineering, or a related role; A proven track record of technical documentation, shown through a portfolio that explains complex concepts clearly and helps developers complete real tasks; Experience designing documentation for consumption by AI agents, with an understanding of how content structure, context, and API clarity affect agent performance; Demonstrated fluency with AI tooling, including coding assistants and LLM-based workflows, and sound judgment about how to validate their outputs; Strong Python skills and the ability to write, run, and debug examples using APIs and SDKs; Familiarity with databases, SQL, and data workflows, plus an interest in learning vector search and multimodal AI infrastructure; Experience with Git, pull requests, Markdown, and documentation workflows integrated with software development; Demonstrated ability to learn a product by reading code, experimenting with APIs, and collaborating with engineers; Strong editorial judgment, attention to technical accuracy, and the ability to prioritize and work independently

Nice to have

Experience documenting databases, data infrastructure, or AI and machine learning tools; Familiarity with LanceDB, Lance, Apache Arrow, or related technologies; Experience with TypeScript or Rust and documenting APIs across multiple languages; Experience with documentation platforms, generated API references, and CI-based testing of code examples; Experience building agent workflows, documenting tool interfaces, or evaluating agents against developer tasks; Contributions to open-source projects or experience supporting a developer community