Senior Data & AI Engineer

Remote

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.

We’re looking for a Senior Data & AI Engineer to lead the design, development, and operation of AI agents that power intelligent experiences across the Material Bank platform. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, applied AI, and platform innovation, with the opportunity to shape how AI is embedded into the core of our business and customer experience. You’ll be the technical lead defining how we build AI agents, with direct access to the teams interfacing with Snowflake with room to influence architecture decisions, and the chance to work across the full AI stack from data modeling and semantic layers to agent orchestration and production operations.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is, at their core, a passionate data engineer with deep curiosity about AI and significant experience building strong data foundations before expanding into applied AI and agent based systems. We are looking for someone who enjoys solving complex technical problems, experimenting with emerging technologies, and turning ambiguous ideas into scalable, production ready solutions. Working hands-on with Snowflake Cortex as our primary AI platform, you will help push the boundaries of what modern AI systems can do in an enterprise environment while helping define the future of intelligent experiences at Material Bank.

What You’ll Do

  • Design, build, and operate production grade AI agents, owning the full lifecycle from prototyping and evaluation through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
  • Lead the development of scalable AI and data services, including MCP servers and REST APIs that expose intelligent capabilities to products, applications, and internal teams.
  • Serve as our internal expert on Snowflake Cortex, going deep on Cortex Agents, Cortex Analyst, and Cortex Search while partnering directly with Snowflake’s account and product teams to influence capabilities and shape how we apply the platform.
  • Apply modern agent architecture patterns including RAG, tool use, orchestration, memory, and evaluation frameworks to build reliable, accurate, and cost efficient AI systems.
  • Partner closely with Analytics & Insights team to design and maintain semantic and metrics layers that create consistent business definitions across AI, analytics, and reporting use cases.
  • Build and maintain scalable data pipelines, transformations, and models that power AI workloads using Snowflake, dbt, and Airflow.
  • Collaborate across data, product, analytics, and engineering teams to translate ambiguous business problems into well designed AI and data solutions.
  • Establish engineering standards and best practices for agentic systems, including observability, evaluation, prompt management, governance, and operational guardrails.

What You’ll bring:

  • Deep experience and genuine passion for data engineering, with strong instincts around data modeling, pipeline architecture, scalability, data quality, and building reliable platforms. Strong data foundations are core to this role.
  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering, AI/ML engineering, or related fields, including recent hands on experience building and shipping LLM powered applications or AI agents into production environments.
  • Experience building production APIs and services, including MCP servers and REST based architectures.
  • Strong understanding of modern agent development patterns including RAG, vector search, prompt engineering, tool/function calling, and frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, or LlamaIndex.
  • Deep expertise in Snowflake, including performance optimization, warehouse architecture, and scalable data modeling approaches such as dimensional modeling or Data Vault.
  • Production experience with dbt and Airflow, including building and maintaining semantic or metrics layers.
  • Strong Python engineering skills and solid experience working within AWS environments including services such as S3, IAM, Lambda, ECS, or similar.
  • Hands on experience using AI powered engineering tools such as Claude Code or similar development accelerators as part of real world engineering workflows.
  • Excitement about specializing deeply in Snowflake Cortex and helping define our long term AI platform strategy.

Nice to Have

  • Hands on experience working with Snowflake Cortex in production environments.
  • Experience with LLM evaluation, tracing, and observability platforms such as LangSmith, Arize, or Langfuse.
  • Experience partnering closely with analytics or BI teams to operationalize business metrics and semantic models.
  • Experience with Go, or a demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply new technologies and programming languages.

 

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.

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