UMATR · 6 hours ago
AI Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$150K/yr - $250K/yr
3+ years expUMATR is seeking an AI Engineer to build AI-powered product features using modern foundation models. The role involves applied AI, prompt engineering, and product integration, focusing on creating reliable and scalable user-facing capabilities.
Staffing & Recruiting
Responsibilities
Design and implement LLM-powered product features using prompt engineering, structured outputs, and tool or function calling
Build prompt pipelines for complex tasks such as reasoning, extraction, classification, summarization, and planning
Develop and maintain retrieval-augmented generation systems, including chunking, embeddings, retrieval strategies, and prompt composition
Evaluate and iterate on prompt quality using both qualitative and quantitative methods
Orchestrate multi-step AI workflows including agents, tools, memory, retries, and fallbacks
Integrate AI systems into production services and APIs
Collaborate with product and design teams to define AI-first user experiences
Stay current with rapid developments in LLM capabilities, best practices, and emerging tools
Qualification
Required
3+ plus years of experience building AI-driven or ML-adjacent product features
Hands-on experience with LLMs including OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models and LLMOps
Demonstrated expertise in prompt engineering
Experience building retrieval-augmented generation systems
Strong Python skills and experience integrating AI APIs into backend services
Strong product intuition with the ability to balance quality, latency, and cost in real-world applications
Familiarity with AI evaluation techniques including golden datasets, human review, and A/B testing
Experience mitigating hallucinations, prompt injection, and safety issues
Experience deploying custom models in production
Must be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate
Preferred
Experience building agentic systems with tools, planners, and memory
Familiarity with vector databases and embeddings
Light experience with fine-tuning or adapters
Company
UMATR
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11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase