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# Applied AI Engineer at Material Bank

- **Company:** Material Bank
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://boards.greenhouse.io/materialbank/jobs/7732615003?gh_jid=7732615003

## Job description

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 multimodal search and understanding, AI-assisted content generation, intelligent workflows, personalization, creative tooling, and agentic systems.

We are looking for someone who not only understands modern AI systems technically, but also has strong product instincts, visual sensibility, and genuine passion for building AI experiences that feel thoughtful, polished, and useful. AI will play a foundational role in the future of Material Bank’s platform, and you will help define and build that future.

## What you’ll do

- 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.
- Evaluate, refine, and improve AI-generated outputs for quality, tone, accuracy, and creative alignment through testing, iteration, and human-in-the-loop evaluation strategies.
- Partner closely with Product, Design, Engineering, Data, and Executive Leadership to identify high-impact opportunities and translate ambiguous ideas into production-ready AI capabilities.
- Make architectural decisions that balance speed, scalability, latency, cost, accuracy, and long-term maintainability.
- Continuously evaluate emerging AI technologies, models, frameworks, and workflows to identify opportunities that create meaningful business and user value.

## What you’ll bring

- 8+ years of experience building and shipping production software, including significant full-stack engineering experience.
- Demonstrated success designing and deploying production-grade AI/ML systems and AI-powered product experiences.
- Deep hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, multimodal AI systems, RAG architectures, and multi-agent frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, Mastra, or equivalent custom tooling.
- Strong engineering fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript and Python ecosystems.
- Experience working with multimodal models, visual analysis systems, and image-based AI workflows at scale, including familiarity with modern image-generation tooling and services.
- Strong systems thinking with the ability to balance trade-offs across latency, cost, scalability, accuracy, reliability, and user experience.
- Proven ability to independently take ambiguous problems from idea to shipped product with minimal oversight.
- Strong product instincts, visual sensibility, and a high bar for quality, usability, and craftsmanship in AI-generated experiences.
- Genuine interest in creative industries such as architecture, design, fashion, media, photography, or art, with an appreciation for aesthetics and taste.
- Open-source contributions, side projects, or publicly demonstrable AI work that reflects curiosity, experimentation, and passion for applied AI are strongly preferred.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across both technical and non-technical teams.

What you’ll get from us:

- Our people: We are a growth-driven team that values efficiency, builds smart automation, operates in small empowered teams, and moves quickly from idea to execution.
- Relaxation and Celebrations: Flexible PTO, Sick Days, Paid National Holidays, and even more (ask us about this when we connect).
- Health Benefits: We contribute to your medical, dental, vision and short-term/long-term disability plans and have a strong employee assistance program.
- Plan for your Retirement: 401(k) eligible after your first 90 day's employed!
- Giving Back: We sponsor multiple events throughout the year to help out our communities.
- Growth: We’ll help you take your career to the next level. We want you to be creative and take initiative which will allow you to grow and create within the company. Most importantly, be the best at what matters!
- Flexible Work Schedules: With business units and employees across the globe, Material Technologies has embraced a hybrid  working model allowing department leaders to decide on the best approach for their respective teams, whether that be remote, in person, or a little of both.

Material Bank is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, veteran or disability status or other status protected under any applicable federal, state or local law.

## About Material Bank

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Material Bank is the world’s largest material marketplace that enables architects and designers to search, sample, and specify design materials with free, carbon-neutral overnight delivery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D; $325M+ total funding)
- **Headquarters**: Miami, Florida, USA (with offices in Boca Raton, FL; Paris, France; Olive Branch, MS; and a New York office coming soon)
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Adam I. Sandow (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Design Services, Architectural & Interior Design Materials Marketplace, Logistics
- **Target customers**: B2B — architects, interior designers, and design firms (120,000+ registered users); also serves manufacturers (500+ leading brands) seeking to get products specified
- **Mission or purpose**: To redefine the future of design by making the material search, sampling, and specification process fast, sustainable, and centralized — committed to net zero by 2040, 100% carbon neutral since 2020.

## Products & Services
- **Material Search & Sampling Platform**: A web-based marketplace where designers can search 500,000+ products across 300+ categories from 650+ brands. Orders placed by midnight ET are shipped in a single box and delivered by 10:30 AM the next day — always free for designers.
- **Brand Discovery & Specification**: Tools for designers to save materials, create boards, collaborate with colleagues, and communicate directly with brand representatives for product details, lead times, and quotes.
- **Manufacturer Services**: Brand exposure to 100,000+ design professionals, leads on-demand, sample reclamation, and massive brand awareness — all to help manufacturers drive specification.
- **Sustainability Initiatives**: Carbon-neutral shipping, sample reclamation, and a CEU webinar series (“Design Your Impact”) on sustainable specifying.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $325M+ total funding (latest round: $175M in 2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not fully disclosed but backed by major venture firms (TechCrunch reported $28M Series A in 2021; $175M round in 2022). Partners include 500+ leading brands like Armstrong Flooring, Kimball International, and others.
- **Growth Signals**: 120,000+ registered users, 560,000+ separate design projects, 33,000+ design firms & corporations, 500+ leading brands, 4.2M+ packages saved from being sent via consolidation. Expanded globally with a European launch in 2023. Recognized by Forbes as one of America’s Best Startup Employers in 2026.

## Competitive Advantages
- **One-box logistics moat**: Proprietary logistics network consolidates samples from hundreds of brands into a single overnight delivery — a massive operational moat that competitors cannot easily replicate.
- **Network effects**: As more designers join, more manufacturers want to list; as more brands list, the platform becomes more valuable to designers.
- **Sustainability leadership**: 100% carbon neutral since 2020 and committed to net zero by 2040 — a strong differentiator in an industry increasingly focused on environmental impact.
- **Speed & convenience**: Overnight delivery of physical samples from hundreds of brands — unmatched in the design industry.

## Strategic Focus
- **Global expansion**: Launched in Europe in 2023 (Paris office), signaling international growth.
- **Product expansion**: Moving beyond sampling into brand discovery, specification, and human connection — becoming a full lifecycle platform for design professionals.
- **Sustainability**: Deepening commitment to net zero, sample reclamation, and sustainable specifying education.
- **AI & data**: Actively hiring Senior Data & AI Engineer and Applied AI Engineer, suggesting investment in AI-powered search, recommendations, and logistics optimization.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-friendly culture**: “Remote-friendly but maintain a global presence for in-person collaboration” — most roles are remote, with hubs in South Florida, Paris, and Mississippi.
- **Comprehensive benefits**: Full medical/dental/vision (some plans at 100% coverage), flexible PTO, company-wide break last week of December, 12 weeks paid parental leave, 401(k) with 100% match up to 4%, FSA/HSA, monthly remote stipend, employee referral bonuses, LifeMart discounts.
- **People-first values**: Leadership principles include “We care,” “We team,” “We grow,” “We build,” “We ask,” “We run” — emphasizing ownership, curiosity, speed, and collaboration.
- **Engineering culture**: Small but mighty technical team (25 people, 11% of workforce) with focus on data, AI, and platform engineering. Current openings include Senior Data & AI Engineer and Applied AI Engineer.
- **Growth trajectory**: $325M+ funded, expanding globally, recognized by Forbes as Best Startup Employer — high growth with stability.
- **Mission-driven**: Working on sustainability (net zero by 2040) and transforming a legacy industry — appealing to purpose-driven talent.
- **Employer rating**: 3.6/5.0 on LinkedIn (81 reviews), with compensation rated 4.1/5.0, culture 3.2, work-life 3.0, career 3.3.

## Sources
1. [materialbank.com](https://www.materialbank.com/)
2. [careers.materialbank.com](https://careers.materialbank.com/careers)
3. [careers.materialbank.com/about](https://careers.materialbank.com/careers/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/materialbank](https://www.linkedin.com/company/materialbank)
5. [TechCrunch (2021) - $28M Series A](https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/17/material-bank-a-logistics-platform-for-sourcing-architectural-and-design-samples-raises-28m/)
6. [Business of Home (2022) - $175M round](https://businessofhome.com/articles/material-bank-raises-175-million)

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