Applied AI Engineer (Product)
Matter Intelligence5 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Build production workflows combining physics-informed models, LLMs, VLMs, world models, scientific code, data services, and deterministic rules.
- Design durable execution across state, planning, model routing, retrieval, memory, tool use, retries, timeouts, checkpoints, human approval, and recovery.
- Create evidence-backed outputs that distinguish source data, model inference, system synthesis, user input, and unresolved uncertainty.
- Partner with product and design to build review, correction, comparison, approval, reporting, and recovery workflows.
- Build permission-aware context, retrieval, memory, and indexing systems with freshness, versioning, retention, and evidence lineage.
- Evaluate system behavior across task success, groundedness, scientific validity, safety, latency, cost, and human intervention.
Requirements
- Production experience building AI applications, agent systems, workflow engines, backend services, or complex software products.
- Strong hands-on engineering skills with APIs, stateful services, databases, asynchronous execution, testing, debugging, and production operations.
- Practical experience with LLMs or multimodal systems, retrieval, memory, tool use, model routing, structured generation, and common failure modes.
- Product judgment and the ability to connect technical design decisions to improved user decisions or workflows.
- Experience building systems with security, permissions, data isolation, auditability, or human-approval requirements.
- Preferred: experience with scientific, geospatial, industrial, defense, autonomy, or other high-consequence intelligence systems.
- Preferred: experience with multimodal applications involving imagery, maps, time series, documents, structured data, or sensor streams.
- Preferred: experience with agent evaluation, constrained generation, program synthesis, durable workflow systems, or mixed cloud and edge architectures.
- Preferred: experience working closely with product and design teams to ship customer-facing capabilities.
- Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawful permanent resident, or eligible to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations for ITAR compliance.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation based on experience.
- Early-stage equity package.
- 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths.
- Based in San Francisco, California, with required onsite work.
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About Matter Intelligence
Matter specializes in advancing sensors and geospatial AI that capture "extreme-resolution" images of natural and artificial materials from space to surface, creating never-seen data of all matter globally. Our sensors simultaneously measure shape, composition, and temperature to understand and predict real-world events like never before. Matter's data accelerates computer vision and contextual geospatial modeling to unlock the next generation of intelligence.