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Applied AI Engineer

Material Bank · Remote · Remote

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About Material Bank

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About the role

As an Applied AI Engineer, you will drive the design, build, and deployment of next-generation AI-powered experiences across Material Bank’s platform. You will work as part of the team responsible for taking ideas from concept to production — building intelligent systems and user experiences that blend cutting-edge AI capabilities with the high standards of quality, aesthetics, and usability expected in the architecture and community.

What they're looking for

  • Design, build, and deploy end-to-end AI-powered product experiences from concept through production
  • Architect and implement scalable AI systems leveraging LLMs, embeddings, multimodal models, retrieval systems, agent frameworks, and modern data infrastructure
  • Build production-grade multi-agent workflows and orchestration systems using frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, Mastra, and custom tooling
  • Develop and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, including embeddings, vector search, retrieval pipelines, chunking strategies, and relevance tuning
  • Build multimodal AI workflows that analyze and reason over images, creative assets, and visual datasets using modern multimodal LLMs, embedding models, and specialized tooling such as SAM2/SAM3
  • Create AI-assisted experiences for search, discovery, content generation, personalization, and creative workflows across Material Bank’s platform
More about this role

Material Bank is the world’s largest material marketplace for the architecture and design industry. Operating in 37 countries, our platform has become the standard for design professionals around the globe. Every day, Material Bank connects thousands of designers with tens of thousands of materials from leading brands. Material Bank is the fastest and most powerful way for design professionals to search, sample, and specify materials.

About the role

As an Applied AI Engineer, you will drive the design, build, and deployment of next-generation AI-powered experiences across Material Bank’s platform. You will work as part of the team responsible for taking ideas from concept to production — building intelligent systems and user experiences that blend cutting-edge AI capabilities with the high standards of quality, aesthetics, and usability expected in the architecture and community.

This is a senior-level individual contributor role focused on applied AI product development. You will work across the stack to architect and deploy scalable AI systems that enhance how users discover, understand, and engage with products, materials, and creative content. Your work will span areas such as...

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