Lead Applied AI Engineer
Material Bank
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Boca Raton • Florida • United States
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About the role
- Design, build, and deploy end-to-end AI workflows from concept through production across internal and revenue-driving functions.
- Identify and prioritize high-impact AI opportunities that improve efficiency, decision-making, and organizational velocity.
- Embed AI into core business processes, including sales prospecting, brand vetting, material classification, data enrichment, and user support tools.
- Architect scalable solutions leveraging LLMs, embeddings, agent frameworks, automation tools, and modern data infrastructure.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Data, Sales, Marketing, Operations, and Executive Leadership to translate business needs into production-ready AI systems.
- Educate and advise leadership on AI capabilities, trade-offs, prioritization, and ROI to ensure focus on initiatives that drive the greatest business value.
- Continuously evaluate emerging AI technologies and ensure all implementations are built on clean, secure, and scalable data foundations.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering experience, with demonstrated success building and deploying production-grade AI/ML systems.
- Deep hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, RAG architectures, and/or agent-based frameworks.
- Strong programming proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript/JavaScript (additional languages a plus).
- Experience designing scalable data pipelines and working with SQL/NoSQL databases and modern data infrastructure.
- Proven ability to translate ambiguous business problems into practical, high-impact technical solutions.
- Experience collaborating across technical and non-technical teams, with strong communication skills at both operator and executive levels.
- Strong product and prioritization instincts, with a focus on measurable business impact and ROI.
- Passion for applied AI and a track record of integrating AI into operational and revenue-driving workflows.
Benefits
- 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.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI workflowsLLMsembeddingsRAG architecturesagent-based frameworksPythonTypeScriptJavaScriptSQLNoSQL
Soft Skills
communication skillscollaborationprioritizationproblem-solvingorganizational velocityeducating leadershiptranslating business needsfocus on measurable impactadvising on AI capabilitiescross-functional partnership