Engineering Manager – Applied AI
Generalmatter · Los Angeles, CA
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## Engineering Manager – Applied AI ### About the Company General Matter enriches uranium and is designing, building, and operating the world's lowest-cost enrichment services in the US. The company is restoring America's ability to produce nuclear fuel to power AI, advanced manufacturing, and critical industries. Backed by over a dozen top venture capital firms and incubated inside Founders Fund, General Matter is a mission-driven company applying first-principles engineering to nuclear fuel production. ### About This Role General Matter has massive critical-path engineering work ahead—nuclear licensing, integrated safety analysis, design criteria, and technoeconomic modeling. The Applied AI team embeds with engineering teams across the company to make existing engineering workflows significantly faster using modern AI. This is an opportunity to define what AI-first engineering looks like at a nuclear company and challenge decades-old assumptions about how work gets done. ### Responsibilities • **Lead and grow the Applied AI team:** Hire, develop, and retain engineers while setting a high technical bar • **Own technical direction and prioritization:** Identify highest-leverage engineering problems and decide where the team invests its time • **Stay hands-on:** Review architecture, solve difficult technical problems, and contribute to implementation when appropriate • **Partner with engineering teams:** Work directly with licensing, safety, design, manufacturing, and other technical teams to identify AI-driven opportunities • **Build scalable engineering practices:** Establish processes for project selection, prototyping, evaluation, and production handoff • **Represent Applied AI across the company:** Communicate technical direction, progress, and tradeoffs to leadership and cross-functional partners ### Basic Qualifications • 7+ years of professional software engineering or applied AI experience • 2+ years of experience managing, mentoring, or growing software or applied AI engineers • Demonstrated experience building and shipping software using LLMs, AI agents, or other modern AI techniques • Strong software engineering fundamentals and proficiency in Python • BS or higher in engineering, physics, chemistry, applied math, computer science, or related technical field ### Preferred Skills and Experience • **Technical leader who still codes:** You enjoy reviewing PRs, debating architecture, and jumping into difficult technical problems • **AI fluency:** Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, tool-use architectures, and AI agents • **Strong engineering judgment:** Quickly understand technical problems across disciplines and evaluate approach soundness • **Workflow-oriented mindset:** Excited by fundamentally improving how engineering teams work, not just adding AI to existing processes
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