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Applied AI Engineer (Product)

matter-intelligenceSan FranciscoSoftware Engineering
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Salary
Not listed
Job type
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Posted
15 Sept 2026
Status
Open · checked 7d ago

About this role

This position suits software professionals with production engineering experience who want to build agentic workflows and intelligence products in San Francisco. The Applied AI Engineer (Product) role at matter-intelligence involves transforming physics-informed models, ultraspectral data, and general-purpose artificial intelligence into secure intelligence products for customers.

Role Overview

Matter-intelligence seeks an Applied AI Engineer (Product) for an onsite position in San Francisco. Reporting to Ignacio Cases Martin, this individual contributor position focuses on building agentic workflows, tool integrations, and human-in-the-loop experiences that assist customers in making operational decisions.

Key Responsibilities

Construct production workflows combining physics-informed models, large language models, vision language models, world models, scientific code, data services, and deterministic rules.
Engineer durable execution handling state, planning, model routing, retrieval, memory, tool use, retries, timeouts, checkpoints, human approval, and recovery.
Generate evidence-backed outputs separating source data, model inference, system synthesis, user input, and uncertainty.
Collaborate with product and design teams to construct workflows for review, correction, comparison, approval, reporting, and recovery.
Establish context, retrieval, memory, and indexing patterns adhering to permissions, freshness, versioning, retention, and evidence lineage.
Measure system performance regarding task success, groundedness, scientific validity, safety, latency, cost, and human intervention.

Requirements

Background in developing production artificial intelligence applications, agent systems, workflow engines, backend services, or complex software products.
Engineering capabilities covering APIs, stateful services, databases, asynchronous execution, testing, debugging, and production operation.
Practical familiarity with large language models, multimodal systems, retrieval, memory, tool use, model routing, structured generation, and failure modes.
Product judgment connecting technical design choices to user decisions and workflows.
Experience designing systems incorporating security, permissions, data isolation, auditability, or human-approval protocols.
Compliance with ITAR regulations as a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or eligibility to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations.

Nice to Have

Familiarity with scientific, geospatial, industrial, defense, autonomy, or high-consequence intelligence systems.
Background developing multimodal applications integrating imagery, maps, time series, documents, structured data, or sensor streams.
Experience with agent evaluation, constrained generation, program synthesis, durable workflow systems, or mixed cloud and edge architectures.
Collaboration history with product and design teams to deliver customer-facing capabilities.

Skills and Tools

LLMs
VLMs
World Models
APIs
Databases
Agent Systems

Salary and Benefits

Competitive compensation determined by experience
Early-stage equity package
Fully employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to contribute to novel sensing, data, and artificial intelligence systems with real-world deployments

About the Company

matter-intelligence builds vision artificial intelligence systems by pairing sensors that observe molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model for the physical world. The team has previously delivered technologies to NASA/JPL for Mars missions, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and developed frontier artificial intelligence systems.

How to Apply

Interested candidates should apply on the official company careers page.

Skills and tech stack

LLMsVLMsWorld ModelsAPIs

Questions candidates ask

Where is the Applied AI Engineer position located?

The position is based in San Francisco, California, and requires onsite work.

Who does the Applied AI Engineer report to?

This role reports to Ignacio Cases Martin.

What are the citizenship or residency requirements for this role?

Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, a lawful permanent resident green card holder, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State to comply with ITAR regulations.

What benefits are included with employment at matter-intelligence?

Benefits include competitive compensation, an early-stage equity package, and 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage.

What kind of systems does matter-intelligence build?

The company builds vision artificial intelligence systems that combine sensors capturing molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model for the physical world.

Ready to apply?

The application is on the official matter-intelligence careers page.

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