Senior Applied AI Engineer: Multimodal AI & Personalization

Material Bank; Abbeville (LA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health benefits

401(k) after 90 days

Hybrid work model

Paid holidays

Job summary

Material Bank is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to drive the design, build, and deployment of AI-powered experiences across its platform. You will work on end-to-end AI product development, including multimodal search, content generation, and intelligent workflows that enhance how users discover materials and creative content.

The role focuses on building scalable AI systems, tracing ideas from concept to production, and collaborating with Product, Design, Engineering, Data, and leadership to

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and shipping production software.
• 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 fundamentals across backend systems, APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and modern JavaScript/TypeScript and Python ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• 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, and retrieval pipelines.
• Develop and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems and multimodal AI workflows across the platform.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Engineering, Data, and Leadership to translate ideas into production-ready AI capabilities.
• Make architectural decisions balancing speed, latency, cost, and scalability.

Skills

AI/ML systems

LLMs

Multimodal AI

System architecture

Full-stack engineering

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

Communication

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

Mastra

Job description

Material Bank is seeking an Applied AI Engineer to drive the design, build, and deployment of AI-powered experiences across its platform. You will work on end-to-end AI product development, including multimodal search, content generation, and intelligent workflows that enhance how users discover materials and creative content.

The role focuses on building scalable AI systems, tracing ideas from concept to production, and collaborating with Product, Design, Engineering, Data, and leadership to