# Engineering Manager – Applied AI at general matter

- Company: general matter
- What the company does: Backed by Founders Fund.
- Company website: https://generalmatter.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $220K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-26
- Apply by: 2026-10-10
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/generalmatter/jobs/5404370008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/general-matter-engineering-manager-applied-ai/

## About the role

Our mission is to make nuclear not only the cleanest and safest source of baseload power, but also the most affordable. We believe abundant nuclear energy will lead to a post-scarcity society. General Matter has a massive body of critical path engineering work ahead—nuclear licensing, integrated safety analysis, design criteria, technoeconomic modeling. Conventional timelines for this work are too slow. We believe there is an opportunity to reinvent every single engineering workflow using modern AI.

## What they're looking for

- Lead and grow the Applied AI team: Hire, develop, and retain engineers while setting a high technical bar
- Own technical direction and prioritization: Identify the highest-leverage engineering problems and decide where the team should invest its time
- Stay hands-on: Review architecture, solve difficult technical problems, and contribute to implementation when appropriate
- Build scalable engineering practices: Establish the processes for project selection, prototyping, evaluation, and production handoff that allow the team to grow without losing speed
- Represent Applied AI across the company: Communicate technical direction, progress, and tradeoffs to company leadership and cross-functional partners
- 7+ years of professional software engineering or applied AI experience

Tags: Software