Job Title: Subject Matter Expert (SME)
About the Role:
At Matter, we specialize in advancing sensors and geospatial AI to capture extreme-resolution images of natural and artificial materials from space to surface. Our cutting-edge sensors simultaneously measure shape, composition, and temperature, enabling unprecedented understanding and prediction of real-world events. By generating never-before-seen data of all matter globally, Matter accelerates computer vision and contextual geospatial modeling, unlocking the next generation of intelligence.
Are you a recognized expert in your field with a passion for leveraging advanced technology to drive transformative change? We are seeking a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to provide deep expertise and strategic guidance in your area of specialization. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a high-tech, fast-paced environment, embraces complex challenges, and is eager to make a significant impact on our innovative projects and initiatives.
Responsibilities:
Serve as the primary point of knowledge in your field
Advise teams and stakeholders on strategy, processes, and technical matters
Analyze data, conduct research, and present actionable insights
Support training, documentation, and quality assurance activities
Requirements:
Demonstrated expertise in a relevant discipline
Proven ability to communicate complex concepts clearly
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Experience working cross-functionally with diverse teams
Welcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Data Infrastructure Engineer to build the systems that transform drone, airborne, orbital, and mission data into durable, versioned datasets for research and products. Reporting to Ignacio Cases Martin, this individual contributor will work across ingestion, processing, storage, lineage, indexing, and scalable access while partnering closely with AI platform, research, product, and reliability teams.
Build reliable ingestion and processing pipelines from sensor and mission systems into curated, versioned, access-controlled datasets.
Design batch and streaming workflows that handle partial delivery, duplicate or missing events, schema drift, backfills, corruption, and recovery.
Choose and operate storage formats, partitioning strategies, catalogs, indexes, and query interfaces appropriate for high-volume scientific and geospatial data.
Maintain lineage across source measurements, transformations, datasets, features, and downstream products so results can be traced and reconstructed.
Build data-quality checks, observability, retention controls, and operational tooling that keep datasets trustworthy as volume and complexity grow.
Partner with Agent Infrastructure, research, Signal and Evaluation, Product Intelligence, and Telemetry teams on stable data contracts and scalable access patterns.
Experience building production data platforms, distributed data pipelines, storage systems, or large-scale backend infrastructure.
Strong software engineering skills in Python and experience with databases, schemas, APIs, workflow orchestration, and automated testing.
Understanding of data-platform failure modes including partial delivery, duplicates, missing events, schema evolution, stale products, corruption, and resource contention.
Experience operating data systems in cloud or containerized environments and diagnosing performance, reliability, and cost issues.
Ability to define clear interfaces and communicate tradeoffs across research, product, infrastructure, and operations teams.
Experience with geospatial, remote-sensing, scientific, image, or other high-dimensional data.
Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, workflow systems, Postgres, Redis, object storage, or geospatial and vector indexes.
Experience with streaming, large backfills, data catalogs, metadata systems, access controls, and schema evolution.
Experience supporting machine-learning training, evaluation, feature, or inference workloads.
Sensor and mission data moves into trustworthy datasets through observable, recoverable pipelines.
Researchers and products can access versioned data efficiently without losing provenance or scientific context.
Data contracts, lineage, tests, and operational tooling reduce silent failures and one-off integration work.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
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Reporting to Ignacio Cases Martin, this individual contributor will work across ingestion, processing, storage, lineage, indexing, and scalable access while partnering closely with AI platform, research, product, and reliability teams.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Build reliable ingestion and processing pipelines from sensor and mission systems into curated, versioned, access-controlled datasets.\n\n - Design batch and streaming workflows that handle partial delivery, duplicate or missing events, schema drift, backfills, corruption, and recovery.\n\n - Choose and operate storage formats, partitioning strategies, catalogs, indexes, and query interfaces appropriate for high-volume scientific and geospatial data.\n\n - Maintain lineage across source measurements, transformations, datasets, features, and downstream products so results can be traced and reconstructed.\n\n - Build data-quality checks, observability, retention controls, and operational tooling that keep datasets trustworthy as volume and complexity grow.\n\n - Partner with Agent Infrastructure, research, Signal and Evaluation, Product Intelligence, and Telemetry teams on stable data contracts and scalable access patterns.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Experience building production data platforms, distributed data pipelines, storage systems, or large-scale backend infrastructure.\n\n - Strong software engineering skills in Python and experience with databases, schemas, APIs, workflow orchestration, and automated testing.\n\n - Understanding of data-platform failure modes including partial delivery, duplicates, missing events, schema evolution, stale products, corruption, and resource contention.\n\n - Experience operating data systems in cloud or containerized environments and diagnosing performance, reliability, and cost issues.\n\n - Ability to define clear interfaces and communicate tradeoffs across research, product, infrastructure, and operations teams.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with geospatial, remote-sensing, scientific, image, or other high-dimensional data.\n\n - Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, workflow systems, Postgres, Redis, object storage, or geospatial and vector indexes.\n\n - Experience with streaming, large backfills, data catalogs, metadata systems, access controls, and schema evolution.\n\n - Experience supporting machine-learning training, evaluation, feature, or inference workloads.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Sensor and mission data moves into trustworthy datasets through observable, recoverable pipelines.\n\n - Researchers and products can access versioned data efficiently without losing provenance or scientific context.\n\n - Data contracts, lineage, tests, and operational tooling reduce silent failures and one-off integration work.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"a7b5c7d0-1eda-49b2-9a62-987d4a0e11a7","title":"Flight Software Engineer","department":"Software Engineering","team":"Flight Software","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"El Segundo","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-05-11T20:51:04.730+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"El Segundo"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/a7b5c7d0-1eda-49b2-9a62-987d4a0e11a7","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/a7b5c7d0-1eda-49b2-9a62-987d4a0e11a7/application","descriptionHtml":"We are looking for a Flight Software Engineer with strong software fundamentals, real embedded or flight software experience, and the judgment to build robust systems under practical constraints. This role sits close to the hardware and close to the mission: you will help define how onboard systems collect data, manage resources, handle failures, and move information from sensor to storage to downlink.
In this role, you will work across the full stack of flight software, from low-level interfaces and concurrency primitives to application-level services and end-to-end test infrastructure. You will be expected to reason clearly about trade-offs, debug across hardware and software boundaries, and build systems that are simple enough to trust when the environment gets messy.
As an early member of the team, you will also help shape the engineering culture around flight software: how we write interfaces, test behavior, document assumptions, review designs, and balance first-principles rigor with pragmatic execution.
You will build and maintain the software that enables Matter’s sensing systems to operate reliably in constrained, real-world environments. The work spans embedded Linux, onboard data handling, hardware interfaces, concurrency, fault handling, test infrastructure, and integration with broader mission systems.
You will collaborate closely with hardware, avionics, science, and data teams to turn ambiguous requirements into clear designs and production-quality implementations. You will help create software that can be exercised in simulation, validated in hardware-in-the-loop environments, and trusted as the system matures toward flight.
Design, implement, and maintain flight software services for sensing payload operations, onboard data handling, resource management, and system coordination
Build robust interfaces to hardware and lower-level systems, including drivers, protocol integrations, and debugging tools when needed
Develop software for embedded Linux environments, including Jetson-class devices and constrained compute targets
Reason carefully about concurrency, bounded memory, performance, and failure modes in systems where correctness and operational safety matter
Build and improve data paths for collection, compression, storage, and downlink, balancing throughput, latency, reliability, and power constraints
Partner with hardware and avionics teams to debug hardware/software interactions and bring up new system capabilities
Use simulation, software-in-the-loop, and hardware-in-the-loop testing appropriately to validate behavior at the right level of fidelity
Improve build, test, and release workflows, including reproducible builds, automated testing, static and dynamic analysis, and artifact traceability
Write clean interfaces, useful explanatory comments, and design documentation that make the system easier for future teammates to understand and extend
You have professional experience building flight software, embedded systems, or similarly constrained software where reliability, debuggability, and performance matter. You are comfortable working close to the hardware, but you also care about higher-level architecture, maintainability, and the developer experience of the systems around you.
You can debug across the full stack: hardware interfaces, threads and processes, filesystems, compression, protocols, and test infrastructure. You know when to reach for simulation, when to move to hardware, and how to use both without fooling yourself.
You communicate well across disciplines and can work with hardware, software, and science teammates to resolve integration challenges. You are proactive about unblocking issues, giving and receiving constructive feedback, and making thoughtful trade-offs under time pressure.
A few things we expect in this role:
2–6+ years of professional flight software, embedded software, or closely related systems experience
Strong programming skills in Python and either C++ or Rust
Experience with multi-threading, memory management, performance optimization, and constrained-system design
Hands-on experience with build systems such as CMake or Make, cross-compilation toolchains, and embedded Linux
Experience with low-level communication protocols, hardware/software debugging, and fault-tolerant system design
Strong instincts for testing, reproducibility, observability, and clean software interfaces
Comfort reasoning about concurrency trade-offs, including bounded memory, locking strategies, lock-free approaches, and static analysis
Judgment when using AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor, with an emphasis on reducing technical debt rather than accelerating it
A first-principles approach to problem solving, with the pragmatism to ship robust solutions instead of waiting for perfect ones
These are not required, but they are strong signals you will ramp quickly and have outsized impact:
Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automated test systems, static or dynamic analysis workflows, and artifact traceability, especially in GitLab
Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing, simulation infrastructure, or fidelity-based test strategies for embedded or flight systems
Experience architecting onboard data paths under real-world constraints, including filesystems, compression, buffering, downlink, latency, throughput, and power budgets
Proven ownership of projects from requirements through design, implementation, test, deployment, and operational support
Experience working with sensors, payload systems, avionics, robotics, satellites, aerospace systems, or other hardware-rich environments
Genuine curiosity about geospatial systems, sensing, and building software with real-world physical impact
Matter is building sensor infrastructure to read the Earth’s material fingerprint from orbit, turning previously inaccessible data into critical intelligence for industries like agriculture, mining, insurance, resource management, and environmental monitoring. We are revealing a layer of detail about the planet that has never been seen before.
Founded by engineers and scientists with deep NASA/JPL roots, Matter combines meticulous, first-principles science with the speed, ownership, and practical focus of an early-stage startup. Our work spans hardware, sensing, flight software, data infrastructure, and AI systems, and the software we build must hold up across the full path from collection through customer-facing insight.
This role sits close to the core of the mission. You will work with people across hardware, science, and software, and your work will shape how reliably we can collect data, operate payload systems, and learn from the physical world.
This is a rare chance to build foundational flight software for a sensing system that has to work outside the comfort of ordinary production environments. The constraints are real, the feedback loops are hands-on, and the quality bar matters.
You will have meaningful ownership over architecture, implementation, and test strategy in a fast-moving environment. You will help define how Matter builds reliable flight software: how we structure services, validate behavior, handle failure, and make the system understandable to the people who operate and extend it.
If you’re excited about building robust software close to the hardware, working across disciplines, and helping create a new way to understand the physical world, we’d love to talk.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT THE ROLE\n\nWe are looking for a Flight Software Engineer with strong software fundamentals, real embedded or flight software experience, and the judgment to build robust systems under practical constraints. This role sits close to the hardware and close to the mission: you will help define how onboard systems collect data, manage resources, handle failures, and move information from sensor to storage to downlink.\n\nIn this role, you will work across the full stack of flight software, from low-level interfaces and concurrency primitives to application-level services and end-to-end test infrastructure. You will be expected to reason clearly about trade-offs, debug across hardware and software boundaries, and build systems that are simple enough to trust when the environment gets messy.\n\nAs an early member of the team, you will also help shape the engineering culture around flight software: how we write interfaces, test behavior, document assumptions, review designs, and balance first-principles rigor with pragmatic execution.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\n\nYou will build and maintain the software that enables Matter’s sensing systems to operate reliably in constrained, real-world environments. The work spans embedded Linux, onboard data handling, hardware interfaces, concurrency, fault handling, test infrastructure, and integration with broader mission systems.\n\nYou will collaborate closely with hardware, avionics, science, and data teams to turn ambiguous requirements into clear designs and production-quality implementations. 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You are comfortable working close to the hardware, but you also care about higher-level architecture, maintainability, and the developer experience of the systems around you.\n\nYou can debug across the full stack: hardware interfaces, threads and processes, filesystems, compression, protocols, and test infrastructure. You know when to reach for simulation, when to move to hardware, and how to use both without fooling yourself.\n\nYou communicate well across disciplines and can work with hardware, software, and science teammates to resolve integration challenges. You are proactive about unblocking issues, giving and receiving constructive feedback, and making thoughtful trade-offs under time pressure.\n\nA few things we expect in this role:\n\n - 2–6+ years of professional flight software, embedded software, or closely related systems experience\n\n - Strong programming skills in Python and either C++ or Rust\n\n - Experience with multi-threading, memory management, performance optimization, and constrained-system design\n\n - Hands-on experience with build systems such as CMake or Make, cross-compilation toolchains, and embedded Linux\n\n - Experience with low-level communication protocols, hardware/software debugging, and fault-tolerant system design\n\n - Strong instincts for testing, reproducibility, observability, and clean software interfaces\n\n - Comfort reasoning about concurrency trade-offs, including bounded memory, locking strategies, lock-free approaches, and static analysis\n\n - Judgment when using AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor, with an emphasis on reducing technical debt rather than accelerating it\n\n - A first-principles approach to problem solving, with the pragmatism to ship robust solutions instead of waiting for perfect ones\n\n\nNICE TO HAVE\n\nThese are not required, but they are strong signals you will ramp quickly and have outsized impact:\n\n - Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automated test systems, static or dynamic analysis workflows, and artifact traceability, especially in GitLab\n\n - Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing, simulation infrastructure, or fidelity-based test strategies for embedded or flight systems\n\n - Experience architecting onboard data paths under real-world constraints, including filesystems, compression, buffering, downlink, latency, throughput, and power budgets\n\n - Proven ownership of projects from requirements through design, implementation, test, deployment, and operational support\n\n - Experience working with sensors, payload systems, avionics, robotics, satellites, aerospace systems, or other hardware-rich environments\n\n - Genuine curiosity about geospatial systems, sensing, and building software with real-world physical impact\n\n\n\n\nABOUT MATTER\n\nMatter is building sensor infrastructure to read the Earth’s material fingerprint from orbit, turning previously inaccessible data into critical intelligence for industries like agriculture, mining, insurance, resource management, and environmental monitoring. We are revealing a layer of detail about the planet that has never been seen before.\n\nFounded by engineers and scientists with deep NASA/JPL roots, Matter combines meticulous, first-principles science with the speed, ownership, and practical focus of an early-stage startup. Our work spans hardware, sensing, flight software, data infrastructure, and AI systems, and the software we build must hold up across the full path from collection through customer-facing insight.\n\nThis role sits close to the core of the mission. You will work with people across hardware, science, and software, and your work will shape how reliably we can collect data, operate payload systems, and learn from the physical world.\n\n\n\n\nWHY THIS ROLE\n\nThis is a rare chance to build foundational flight software for a sensing system that has to work outside the comfort of ordinary production environments. The constraints are real, the feedback loops are hands-on, and the quality bar matters.\n\nYou will have meaningful ownership over architecture, implementation, and test strategy in a fast-moving environment. 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Location: San Francisco — on-site required
Matter Intelligence is building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model - the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, co-founded infrastructure for OpenAI, designed sensors for U.S. Defense, and invented core algorithms for spectral and 3D imaging.
Matter is vertically integrated across proprietary sensor, data, and models, but the product is operational intelligence and decision tools, not imagery for its own sake. The same core architecture spans airborne, orbital, and other machine-vision platforms. Airborne customer deployments begin in 2026, with orbital collection planned to follow.
We are looking for a founder-caliber commercial leader to a help build the GTM engine for commercial business. This is not a conventional VP Sales job: you will help decide where Matter should focus, turn customer problems into repeatable products, create the path from pilot to production, and personally drive consequential opportunities in partnership with the CEO.
Set company and commercial strategy with the CEO, including priority buyer problems, market wedges, sequencing, and explicit no-go areas
Turn customer pain into repeatable operational-intelligence products across APIs, workflows, UI, models, and decision outputs
Own the path from pilot, design partnership, or LOI to paid production, including scope, success criteria, pricing, contracting, deployment, and adoption
Personally advance and close strategic enterprise opportunities, using the CEO, board, advisors, and domain experts deliberately
Create Matter’s category narrative and deliver compelling demos even while the product is emerging
Establish account planning, pipeline, forecasting, customer-learning, product-decision, and revenue operating rhythms
Lead existing account executives and deployment strategists, partner deeply with technical teams, and build the commercial organization Matter needs
Matter has a focused commercial thesis grounded in urgent buyer pain, reachable budgets, and unique technical advantage
Priority pilots and LOIs have explicit paths to paid production, with clear account ownership and internal dependencies
Customer learning is producing sharper, repeatable products and credible demos across APIs, workflows, UI, and decision outputs
The commercial team operates with clear standards and reliable cadence, and the CEO has a genuine peer who improves the quality and speed of company decisions
Matter has board-credible evidence of repeatable demand through paid deployments, production conversions, or strategic contracts
Packaging, pricing, delivery, and customer-success patterns increase speed and margin without turning Matter into a bespoke services company
An exceptional initial commercial team is in place around the strongest market wedges
The commercial evidence base strengthens the company’s next financing and supports expansion from airborne to orbital-scale products
Founder, founding-team, or equivalent 0→1 experience building something genuinely difficult
Exceptional product and operating judgment, including turning customer problems and early deployments into repeatable products
Personal ownership of material, complex revenue—not only team oversight, partnerships, or inherited pipeline
The ability to explain an unfamiliar technical paradigm simply, create belief, and demo before the product is mature
Technical curiosity and the credibility to earn the trust of scientists and engineers
Executive maturity to be a candid, low-ego partner to the CEO and the ability to attract and develop exceptional talent
Focus, durability, integrity, and accountable ownership through ambiguity
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"HEAD OF COMMERCIAL BUSINESS\n\nReports to: CEO\n\nLocation: San Francisco — on-site required\n\n\n\n\nABOUT MATTER AND THE OPPORTUNITY\n\n\n\nMatter Intelligence is building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model - the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, co-founded infrastructure for OpenAI, designed sensors for U.S. Defense, and invented core algorithms for spectral and 3D imaging.\n\n\n\nMatter is vertically integrated across proprietary sensor, data, and models, but the product is operational intelligence and decision tools, not imagery for its own sake. The same core architecture spans airborne, orbital, and other machine-vision platforms. Airborne customer deployments begin in 2026, with orbital collection planned to follow.\n\n\n\nWe are looking for a founder-caliber commercial leader to a help build the GTM engine for commercial business. This is not a conventional VP Sales job: you will help decide where Matter should focus, turn customer problems into repeatable products, create the path from pilot to production, and personally drive consequential opportunities in partnership with the CEO.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU WILL OWN\n\n - Set company and commercial strategy with the CEO, including priority buyer problems, market wedges, sequencing, and explicit no-go areas\n\n - Turn customer pain into repeatable operational-intelligence products across APIs, workflows, UI, models, and decision outputs\n\n - Own the path from pilot, design partnership, or LOI to paid production, including scope, success criteria, pricing, contracting, deployment, and adoption\n\n - Personally advance and close strategic enterprise opportunities, using the CEO, board, advisors, and domain experts deliberately\n\n - Create Matter’s category narrative and deliver compelling demos even while the product is emerging\n\n - Establish account planning, pipeline, forecasting, customer-learning, product-decision, and revenue operating rhythms\n\n - Lead existing account executives and deployment strategists, partner deeply with technical teams, and build the commercial organization Matter needs\n\n\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n\n\n\nFIRST 6 MONTHS\n\n - Matter has a focused commercial thesis grounded in urgent buyer pain, reachable budgets, and unique technical advantage\n\n - Priority pilots and LOIs have explicit paths to paid production, with clear account ownership and internal dependencies\n\n - Customer learning is producing sharper, repeatable products and credible demos across APIs, workflows, UI, and decision outputs\n\n - The commercial team operates with clear standards and reliable cadence, and the CEO has a genuine peer who improves the quality and speed of company decisions\n\n\nNEXT 12–18 MONTHS\n\n - Matter has board-credible evidence of repeatable demand through paid deployments, production conversions, or strategic contracts\n\n - Packaging, pricing, delivery, and customer-success patterns increase speed and margin without turning Matter into a bespoke services company\n\n - An exceptional initial commercial team is in place around the strongest market wedges\n\n - The commercial evidence base strengthens the company’s next financing and supports expansion from airborne to orbital-scale products\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR\n\n - Founder, founding-team, or equivalent 0→1 experience building something genuinely difficult\n\n - Exceptional product and operating judgment, including turning customer problems and early deployments into repeatable products\n\n - Personal ownership of material, complex revenue—not only team oversight, partnerships, or inherited pipeline\n\n - The ability to explain an unfamiliar technical paradigm simply, create belief, and demo before the product is mature\n\n - Technical curiosity and the credibility to earn the trust of scientists and engineers\n\n - Executive maturity to be a candid, low-ego partner to the CEO and the ability to attract and develop exceptional talent\n\n - Focus, durability, integrity, and accountable ownership through ambiguity\n \n \n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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Reports to: CEO
Matter Intelligence is building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model - the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed sensors for U.S. Defense, and invented core algorithms for spectral and 3D imaging.
Matter is looking for a Chief of Staff to work directly with the CEO and drive the company’s most important strategic initiatives across engineering, commercial, finance, legal, and operations.
This is a high-trust, high-context operating role for someone who can move fluidly between strategy and execution. You will help the CEO translate company priorities into crisp operating plans, connect the right teams at the right moments, surface misalignment early, and ensure that important work does not stall between functions.
The ideal candidate is not looking for a purely administrative staff role. They are a strong operator who can take ambiguous company-level problems, structure them, drive them forward, and build durable systems so the company gets faster as it scales.
Drive strategic initiatives directly for the CEO, from problem definition through execution, follow-through, and operating cadence
Connect engineering, commercial, finance, legal, and operations teams to keep priorities aligned and dependencies visible
Turn executive priorities into clear workstreams, owners, timelines, decision points, and communication rhythms
Identify where the company is blocked, misaligned, or under-resourced, and help resolve issues before they become bottlenecks
Support company planning, leadership meetings, board and investor materials, operating reviews, and cross-functional decision-making
Partner with commercial and product leaders to ensure customer commitments, product direction, delivery requirements, and business priorities stay connected
Partner with finance and legal on contracts, approvals, budgets, procurement, compliance, and other operating systems as the company scales
Build lightweight processes that improve execution without adding bureaucracy
Take on special projects where the company needs focused ownership and there is not yet a clear functional home
The CEO has a trusted operator who can independently drive priority initiatives across functions
Company priorities are clearer, better communicated, and more consistently followed through
Cross-functional projects have crisp owners, timelines, dependencies, and decision points
Leadership meetings, operating reviews, and executive follow-ups are tighter and more action-oriented
Engineering, commercial, finance, and legal teams have better visibility into how their work connects to company-level goals
Matter has a stronger operating cadence across leadership, planning, execution, and accountability
Strategic initiatives move faster because coordination, decision-making, and follow-through are no longer bottlenecks
The company has better systems for translating customer, product, financial, and legal inputs into aligned priorities
The CEO is able to spend more time on the highest-leverage company-building work because key operating workstreams are owned
Matter has a more scalable operating foundation for its next stage of growth
4+ years of experience in a high-performance operating environment such as an early-stage startup, strategy / business operations role, management consulting, investing, product operations, or a founder / founding-team role
Exceptional judgment, organization, and follow-through in ambiguous situations
Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional work across technical, commercial, financial, legal, or operational stakeholders
Strong written and verbal communication; able to turn complexity into clear decisions, narratives, and operating plans
High ownership: willing to take responsibility for outcomes, not just coordination
Strong analytical ability and comfort working with financial, operational, customer, and product information
Low ego and high trustworthiness; able to operate with sensitive information and work closely with senior leaders
Bias to action, resourcefulness, and comfort building structure where none exists
Technical curiosity and the ability to earn credibility with engineers and scientists without needing to be the technical expert
Matter is building a company at the intersection of frontier hardware, AI, physical-world data, and operational decision-making. That creates unusual coordination challenges: technical milestones, customer commitments, financing needs, legal constraints, and company priorities all have to move together.
This role exists to help the CEO and leadership team keep those priorities aligned - and to make sure the most important work gets done.
","descriptionPlain":"CHIEF OF STAFF\n\nLocation: San Francisco — on-site required\n\nReports to: CEO\n\n\n\n\nABOUT MATTER\n\nMatter Intelligence is building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model - the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed sensors for U.S. Defense, and invented core algorithms for spectral and 3D imaging.\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is looking for a Chief of Staff to work directly with the CEO and drive the company’s most important strategic initiatives across engineering, commercial, finance, legal, and operations.\n\n\n\nThis is a high-trust, high-context operating role for someone who can move fluidly between strategy and execution. You will help the CEO translate company priorities into crisp operating plans, connect the right teams at the right moments, surface misalignment early, and ensure that important work does not stall between functions.\n\n\n\nThe ideal candidate is not looking for a purely administrative staff role. They are a strong operator who can take ambiguous company-level problems, structure them, drive them forward, and build durable systems so the company gets faster as it scales.\n\n\n\n\nWHAT YOU’LL OWN\n\n - Drive strategic initiatives directly for the CEO, from problem definition through execution, follow-through, and operating cadence\n\n - Connect engineering, commercial, finance, legal, and operations teams to keep priorities aligned and dependencies visible\n\n - Turn executive priorities into clear workstreams, owners, timelines, decision points, and communication rhythms\n\n - Identify where the company is blocked, misaligned, or under-resourced, and help resolve issues before they become bottlenecks\n\n - Support company planning, leadership meetings, board and investor materials, operating reviews, and cross-functional decision-making\n\n - Partner with commercial and product leaders to ensure customer commitments, product direction, delivery requirements, and business priorities stay connected\n\n - Partner with finance and legal on contracts, approvals, budgets, procurement, compliance, and other operating systems as the company scales\n\n - Build lightweight processes that improve execution without adding bureaucracy\n\n - Take on special projects where the company needs focused ownership and there is not yet a clear functional home\n\n\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n\n\n\nIN THE FIRST 3–6 MONTHS\n\n - The CEO has a trusted operator who can independently drive priority initiatives across functions\n\n - Company priorities are clearer, better communicated, and more consistently followed through\n\n - Cross-functional projects have crisp owners, timelines, dependencies, and decision points\n\n - Leadership meetings, operating reviews, and executive follow-ups are tighter and more action-oriented\n\n - Engineering, commercial, finance, and legal teams have better visibility into how their work connects to company-level goals\n\n\nIN THE FIRST 12 MONTHS\n\n - Matter has a stronger operating cadence across leadership, planning, execution, and accountability\n\n - Strategic initiatives move faster because coordination, decision-making, and follow-through are no longer bottlenecks\n\n - The company has better systems for translating customer, product, financial, and legal inputs into aligned priorities\n\n - The CEO is able to spend more time on the highest-leverage company-building work because key operating workstreams are owned\n\n - Matter has a more scalable operating foundation for its next stage of growth\n\n\n\n\nWHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR\n\n - 4+ years of experience in a high-performance operating environment such as an early-stage startup, strategy / business operations role, management consulting, investing, product operations, or a founder / founding-team role\n\n - Exceptional judgment, organization, and follow-through in ambiguous situations\n\n - Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional work across technical, commercial, financial, legal, or operational stakeholders\n\n - Strong written and verbal communication; able to turn complexity into clear decisions, narratives, and operating plans\n\n - High ownership: willing to take responsibility for outcomes, not just coordination\n\n - Strong analytical ability and comfort working with financial, operational, customer, and product information\n\n - Low ego and high trustworthiness; able to operate with sensitive information and work closely with senior leaders\n\n - Bias to action, resourcefulness, and comfort building structure where none exists\n\n - Technical curiosity and the ability to earn credibility with engineers and scientists without needing to be the technical expert\n\n\n\n\nWHY THIS ROLE MATTERS\n\nMatter is building a company at the intersection of frontier hardware, AI, physical-world data, and operational decision-making. That creates unusual coordination challenges: technical milestones, customer commitments, financing needs, legal constraints, and company priorities all have to move together.\n\n\n\nThis role exists to help the CEO and leadership team keep those priorities aligned - and to make sure the most important work gets done.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"b497ce41-d3cf-4a06-81e0-1cfe2f49b695","title":"Electrical Engineer","department":"Hardware Engineering","team":"Hardware Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"El Segundo","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-03-27T18:45:14.080+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"El Segundo"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/b497ce41-d3cf-4a06-81e0-1cfe2f49b695","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/b497ce41-d3cf-4a06-81e0-1cfe2f49b695/application","descriptionHtml":"Matter Intelligence builds advanced Earth-observation systems that combine novel sensing technology, spacecraft and airborne platforms, and AI-driven data exploitation. Our systems deliver fundamentally new ways of understanding the physical world, from molecular chemistry to temperature and 3D structure, across spaceborne and airborne missions.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of sensing systems for the physical world.
We are seeking an Electrical Engineer to design, analyze, test, and integrate electronic hardware for complex sensing systems. This role is ideal for an engineer with strong PCB design fundamentals and hands-on experience taking circuits from concept through bring-up, validation, and subsystem integration.
You will work closely with sensors, systems, mechanical, software, and test engineers to develop reliable electronics for airborne and spaceborne platforms. The role requires rigorous engineering judgment, attention to detail, and comfort working in a fast-moving hardware environment.
Design and develop printed circuit boards and electronic subsystems for advanced sensing platforms.
Own schematics, layout guidance, component selection, and board-level integration using Altium Designer.
Apply sound design practices across analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits as needed by the system.
Support design reviews and ensure manufacturability, testability, and reliability of hardware.
Perform circuit simulation and analysis using Cadence PSpice or similar tools.
Conduct performance analysis, worst-case circuit analysis, and stress derating to support robust operation across environments.
Define and execute board bring-up, debug, and functional validation activities.
Support acceptance testing and verification of assemblies and subsystems.
Select and evaluate common PCB materials appropriate to mission and environmental requirements.
Ensure designs adhere to IPC standards and internal quality expectations.
Create clear engineering documentation including schematics, BOMs, test procedures, interface documentation, and design rationale.
Partner with manufacturing and suppliers to resolve technical issues during fabrication and assembly.
Work across electrical, mechanical, software, and systems teams to integrate hardware into larger payload and platform architectures.
Support lab testing, subsystem integration, and issue resolution during development.
Contribute to troubleshooting efforts across prototypes, engineering units, and flight-relevant hardware.
Circuit designs are robust, well-documented, and manufacturable.
Boards move efficiently from design through bring-up and test with minimal surprises.
Hardware performs reliably under expected operating conditions and environmental constraints.
Electrical risks are identified early and mitigated through sound analysis and testing.
Cross-functional integration proceeds smoothly and supports overall system performance.
Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.
5-10 years of experience in PCB and circuit design and development.
Strong experience with Altium Designer for schematic capture, PCB layout, and design release.
Familiarity with common PCB materials, fabrication considerations, and assembly constraints.
Working knowledge of IPC standards and acceptance testing practices.
Experience designing, testing, debugging, and integrating circuit designs and subsystems.
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
Clear written and verbal communication skills.
Experience with Cadence PSpice for circuit simulation and performance analysis.
Experience with worst-case circuit analysis and component stress derating.
Background in electronics for aerospace, remote sensing, instrumentation, or other high-performance hardware systems.
Experience supporting environmental, qualification, or production acceptance testing.
Comfort working in a fast-paced startup or prototype-heavy development environment.
This is a full-time role based in El Segundo, CA, with onsite presence required.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing systems with real-world deployment paths across airborne and orbital platforms
You are a rigorous, hands-on electrical engineer who enjoys turning complex hardware problems into reliable systems. You care about design quality, documentation, and validation, and you are energized by working closely with multidisciplinary teams building hardware that will operate in the real world.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nMatter Intelligence builds advanced Earth-observation systems that combine novel sensing technology, spacecraft and airborne platforms, and AI-driven data exploitation. Our systems deliver fundamentally new ways of understanding the physical world, from molecular chemistry to temperature and 3D structure, across spaceborne and airborne missions.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of sensing systems for the physical world.\n\n \n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nWe are seeking an Electrical Engineer to design, analyze, test, and integrate electronic hardware for complex sensing systems. This role is ideal for an engineer with strong PCB design fundamentals and hands-on experience taking circuits from concept through bring-up, validation, and subsystem integration.\n\nYou will work closely with sensors, systems, mechanical, software, and test engineers to develop reliable electronics for airborne and spaceborne platforms. The role requires rigorous engineering judgment, attention to detail, and comfort working in a fast-moving hardware environment.\n\n \n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\nCIRCUIT DESIGN AND PCB DEVELOPMENT\n\n - Design and develop printed circuit boards and electronic subsystems for advanced sensing platforms.\n\n - Own schematics, layout guidance, component selection, and board-level integration using Altium Designer.\n\n - Apply sound design practices across analog, digital, and mixed-signal circuits as needed by the system.\n\n - Support design reviews and ensure manufacturability, testability, and reliability of hardware.\n\n\nANALYSIS AND VALIDATION\n\n - Perform circuit simulation and analysis using Cadence PSpice or similar tools.\n\n - Conduct performance analysis, worst-case circuit analysis, and stress derating to support robust operation across environments.\n\n - Define and execute board bring-up, debug, and functional validation activities.\n\n - Support acceptance testing and verification of assemblies and subsystems.\n\n\nSTANDARDS, DOCUMENTATION, AND QUALITY\n\n - Select and evaluate common PCB materials appropriate to mission and environmental requirements.\n\n - Ensure designs adhere to IPC standards and internal quality expectations.\n\n - Create clear engineering documentation including schematics, BOMs, test procedures, interface documentation, and design rationale.\n\n - Partner with manufacturing and suppliers to resolve technical issues during fabrication and assembly.\n\n\nCROSS-FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION\n\n - Work across electrical, mechanical, software, and systems teams to integrate hardware into larger payload and platform architectures.\n\n - Support lab testing, subsystem integration, and issue resolution during development.\n\n - Contribute to troubleshooting efforts across prototypes, engineering units, and flight-relevant hardware.\n\n \n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Circuit designs are robust, well-documented, and manufacturable.\n\n - Boards move efficiently from design through bring-up and test with minimal surprises.\n\n - Hardware performs reliably under expected operating conditions and environmental constraints.\n\n - Electrical risks are identified early and mitigated through sound analysis and testing.\n\n - Cross-functional integration proceeds smoothly and supports overall system performance.\n\n \n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field.\n\n - 5-10 years of experience in PCB and circuit design and development.\n\n - Strong experience with Altium Designer for schematic capture, PCB layout, and design release.\n\n - Familiarity with common PCB materials, fabrication considerations, and assembly constraints.\n\n - Working knowledge of IPC standards and acceptance testing practices.\n\n - Experience designing, testing, debugging, and integrating circuit designs and subsystems.\n\n - Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.\n\n - Clear written and verbal communication skills.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with Cadence PSpice for circuit simulation and performance analysis.\n\n - Experience with worst-case circuit analysis and component stress derating.\n\n - Background in electronics for aerospace, remote sensing, instrumentation, or other high-performance hardware systems.\n\n - Experience supporting environmental, qualification, or production acceptance testing.\n\n - Comfort working in a fast-paced startup or prototype-heavy development environment.\n\n \n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis is a full-time role based in El Segundo, CA, with onsite presence required.\n\n \n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n \n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS & BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing systems with real-world deployment paths across airborne and orbital platforms\n\n \n\n\nWHO YOU ARE\n\nYou are a rigorous, hands-on electrical engineer who enjoys turning complex hardware problems into reliable systems. You care about design quality, documentation, and validation, and you are energized by working closely with multidisciplinary teams building hardware that will operate in the real world.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"d1151da3-8eda-4b0f-9102-51211f4f5409","title":"Head of Sovereign Partnerships","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-15T02:10:21.537+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/d1151da3-8eda-4b0f-9102-51211f4f5409","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/d1151da3-8eda-4b0f-9102-51211f4f5409/application","descriptionHtml":"Welcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter Intelligence is developing advanced sensing and intelligence capabilities that help governments, operators, and autonomous systems better understand the physical world. Matter’s capabilities span aircraft- and space-based sensing, satellite systems, raw and processed data, and intelligence products derived from advanced spectral information.
Matter is building its government business around difficult national-security, defense, intelligence, civil-government, and commercial missions where better sensing and faster interpretation can produce meaningful operational advantage.
Matter Intelligence is seeking a Lead of Asian Business Development to establish and lead the company’s government and strategic business-development activities across the Indo-Pacific.
The Lead will initially focus on Japan and South Korea with future opportunities across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The role will be responsible for translating Matter’s technology into country-specific opportunities, establishing relationships with government and industry decision-makers, developing regional market-entry strategies, building qualified pipelines, and converting priority opportunities into funded programs and long-term customer relationships.
This is not solely a relationship-management or account-representation position. The Lead will own the complete regional business-development and capture lifecycle: market intelligence, account planning, customer discovery, partner development, opportunity qualification, capture strategy, proposal development, procurement navigation, negotiation, and contract conversion.
The successful candidate will combine deep knowledge of Indo-Pacific defense and government markets with the ability to operate effectively inside a technically ambitious, early-stage company. This person must be equally comfortable briefing senior government leaders, working through acquisition and contracting details, building partnerships with established aerospace and defense companies, and helping Matter’s technical teams shape products around real customer missions.
The Lead will work closely with Matter’s executive, engineering, product, legal, finance, and operations teams.
The Director will develop and execute country strategies across:
Japan
South Korea
Australia
New Zealand
Singapore
Indonesia
Malaysia
The Philippines
Additional Indo-Pacific markets may be added as Matter’s international business develops.
Japan and South Korea are expected to be initial priority markets because of their defense relationships, technological maturity, geospatial and remote-sensing demand, and ability to support regional expansion.
Develop and execute Matter’s government and strategic business-development strategy for the Indo-Pacific.
Create differentiated market-entry plans for each priority country based on mission demand, acquisition structures, available budgets, local industrial requirements, and Matter’s technical readiness.
Identify the defense, intelligence, civil-government, scientific, environmental, infrastructure, and commercial missions where Matter’s sensing and intelligence capabilities provide the strongest customer value.
Prioritize markets and opportunities based on revenue potential, strategic importance, probability of capture, time to contract, technical fit, and required investment.
Maintain a regional operating plan that defines target countries, priority accounts, opportunity pipelines, expected bookings, partner strategies, and resource requirements.
Provide Matter’s leadership with clear recommendations regarding where the company should invest, partner, establish a local presence, or defer market entry.
Establish relationships with defense ministries, armed services, intelligence organizations, civil-government agencies, space agencies, research organizations, and other relevant public-sector institutions.
Develop trusted relationships with senior mission users, technical stakeholders, acquisition officials, procurement organizations, and executive decision-makers.
Lead customer discovery to identify operational problems that can be addressed through Matter’s aircraft-based sensors, space-based sensors, satellite systems, data products, and intelligence capabilities.
Educate customers on Matter’s technology while gathering specific mission, performance, security, integration, contracting, and deployment requirements.
Develop opportunities for demonstrations, evaluations, pilot programs, research agreements, data purchases, sensor sales, satellite partnerships, and operational programs.
Build demand before formal procurements are released and help shape requirements around problems Matter is uniquely positioned to solve.
Navigate country-specific acquisition processes, budget cycles, tender procedures, contracting mechanisms, security requirements, and industrial-participation expectations.
Represent Matter at senior-level government meetings, industry events, trade missions, exercises, demonstrations, conferences, and partner engagements.
Own the full lifecycle of qualified Indo-Pacific opportunities from initial identification through contract award.
Develop capture plans that identify the customer mission, decision-makers, acquisition path, funding source, competitive environment, evaluation criteria, partner strategy, technical solution, pricing considerations, and actions required to win.
Establish clear qualification standards and avoid committing company resources to poorly defined or low-probability opportunities.
Maintain accurate account, contact, activity, pipeline, probability, value, timing, and next-action information in Matter’s CRM.
Build and manage a forecast covering near-term pipeline development, proposal activity, anticipated awards, bookings, and long-term revenue.
Coordinate internal bid and no-bid decisions with the Head of Government Growth and Matter’s executive and technical leadership.
Lead or support responses to requests for information, requests for proposals, tenders, grant programs, research solicitations, and other acquisition opportunities.
Coordinate proposal development across technical, legal, financial, operational, and executive stakeholders.
Support commercial structuring, pricing, negotiation, and contract closure.
Develop strategies for converting initial demonstrations or pilot programs into recurring data purchases, larger deployments, satellite programs, or multi-year contracts.
Identify and develop relationships with regional aerospace and defense primes, satellite operators, system integrators, analytics companies, research organizations, universities, distributors, and specialized local partners.
Determine where Matter should sell directly, work through a local representative, establish a reseller relationship, join a consortium, subcontract to a prime, or pursue an opportunity as the prime contractor.
Build joint go-to-market and account plans with strategic partners.
Evaluate prospective partners based on customer access, technical contribution, contracting position, reputation, incentives, and ability to improve Matter’s probability of winning.
Develop sovereign or locally integrated solutions where required by customer policy or market conditions.
Support negotiations involving teaming agreements, memoranda of understanding, reseller arrangements, data partnerships, joint demonstrations, and other strategic agreements.
Ensure that partner relationships generate measurable access, opportunities, customer insight, or revenue rather than becoming passive affiliations.
Translate customer missions and operational requirements into clear inputs for Matter’s engineering and product teams.
Work with technical leaders to define demonstrations, pilot programs, minimum viable capabilities, product configurations, integration approaches, and development priorities.
Ensure that proposed solutions are technically credible, operationally relevant, commercially viable, and deliverable within agreed timelines.
Develop a strong working understanding of spectral imaging, Earth observation, remote sensing, geospatial intelligence, satellite systems, aircraft-based collection, data products, and analytics.
Help create country- and mission-specific sales materials, concept-of-operations documents, technical briefs, demonstration plans, and customer presentations.
Communicate product limitations and development dependencies honestly while creating credible paths from current capabilities to future operational programs.
Provide structured feedback on regional customer requirements, competitors, pricing expectations, procurement barriers, and product demand.
Work with legal and executive leadership to evaluate export-control, sanctions, data-security, technology-transfer, intellectual-property, licensing, and foreign-partner considerations.
Incorporate applicable U.S. and local-country regulations into account and capture strategies.
Identify localization, sovereign-control, data-residency, security, offset, local-content, or industrial-participation requirements that could affect an opportunity.
Help determine when Matter may require local entities, employees, representatives, distributors, facilities, or other forms of in-country presence.
Conduct appropriate diligence on consultants, representatives, partners, and intermediaries.
Maintain high standards of ethics, transparency, recordkeeping, and compliance in all government and commercial engagements.
Serve as Matter’s internal authority on Indo-Pacific government markets, customers, acquisition systems, competitors, and partnership ecosystems.
Build repeatable regional business-development processes that can scale as Matter grows.
Coordinate international activity with Matter’s U.S. government-growth strategy so that customer engagement, product development, and partnerships reinforce one another.
Help determine the timing and structure of future regional hiring.
Recruit and manage regional personnel, consultants, advisors, representatives, or channel partners as the business justifies expansion.
Contribute to broader company strategy regarding international markets, product priorities, capital allocation, and organizational growth.
Present a scalable plan for Matter’s longer-term regional presence, staffing, partnerships, and revenue growth.
Approximately 8–12 or more years of experience in international business development, government sales, capture management, strategic partnerships, or a closely related field.
At least five years of relevant experience working with defense, intelligence, space, civil-government, or national-security customers in the Indo-Pacific.
Demonstrated experience developing and closing complex government, defense, aerospace, technology, data, or enterprise opportunities.
Track record of managing long-cycle, multi-stakeholder sales and capture processes.
Strong understanding of government acquisition, procurement, budgeting, contracting, and tender processes in one or more priority Indo-Pacific countries.
Established network among relevant government, defense, intelligence, aerospace, space, geospatial, or technology stakeholders in the region.
Experience building country strategies, account plans, capture plans, partner strategies, and qualified pipelines.
Ability to engage credibly with senior government officials, military officers, intelligence professionals, acquisition personnel, engineers, and industry executives.
Ability to understand technically complex products and translate them into mission, operational, and economic value.
Experience coordinating proposals, demonstrations, negotiations, and contracts across multidisciplinary teams.
Strong commercial judgment, including the ability to distinguish genuine opportunities from unfunded interest.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Ability and willingness to travel extensively throughout the region and periodically to the United States.
High standards of integrity and demonstrated ability to operate appropriately in sensitive government and international environments.
Experience in Earth observation, remote sensing, spectral imaging, geospatial intelligence, satellite systems, defense technology, aerospace, artificial intelligence, or data and analytics.
Experience selling to or partnering with defense and intelligence organizations in Japan, South Korea, Australia, or Singapore.
Demonstrated success closing multi-million-dollar or multi-year government contracts.
Experience with both direct government sales and partner-led market-entry models.
Experience working in an early-stage or high-growth technology company.
Knowledge of U.S. export-control requirements and international technology-transfer considerations.
Familiarity with sovereign capability requirements, data-residency considerations, industrial-participation programs, offsets, or local-content requirements.
Experience structuring demonstrations or pilot programs that subsequently converted into operational procurements.
Professional fluency in Japanese or Korean.
Additional language capability relevant to Southeast Asia.
Existing eligibility for access to relevant government, defense, or industry facilities and programs.
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
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Matter’s capabilities span aircraft- and space-based sensing, satellite systems, raw and processed data, and intelligence products derived from advanced spectral information.\n\nMatter is building its government business around difficult national-security, defense, intelligence, civil-government, and commercial missions where better sensing and faster interpretation can produce meaningful operational advantage.\n\n\nTHE ROLE\n\nMatter Intelligence is seeking a Lead of Asian Business Development to establish and lead the company’s government and strategic business-development activities across the Indo-Pacific.\n\nThe Lead will initially focus on Japan and South Korea with future opportunities across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The role will be responsible for translating Matter’s technology into country-specific opportunities, establishing relationships with government and industry decision-makers, developing regional market-entry strategies, building qualified pipelines, and converting priority opportunities into funded programs and long-term customer relationships.\n\nThis is not solely a relationship-management or account-representation position. The Lead will own the complete regional business-development and capture lifecycle: market intelligence, account planning, customer discovery, partner development, opportunity qualification, capture strategy, proposal development, procurement navigation, negotiation, and contract conversion.\n\nThe successful candidate will combine deep knowledge of Indo-Pacific defense and government markets with the ability to operate effectively inside a technically ambitious, early-stage company. This person must be equally comfortable briefing senior government leaders, working through acquisition and contracting details, building partnerships with established aerospace and defense companies, and helping Matter’s technical teams shape products around real customer missions.\n\nThe Lead will work closely with Matter’s executive, engineering, product, legal, finance, and operations teams.\n\n\nGEOGRAPHIC SCOPE\n\nThe Director will develop and execute country strategies across:\n\n - Japan\n\n - South Korea\n\n - Australia\n\n - New Zealand\n\n - Singapore\n\n - Indonesia\n\n - Malaysia\n\n - The Philippines\n\nAdditional Indo-Pacific markets may be added as Matter’s international business develops.\n\nJapan and South Korea are expected to be initial priority markets because of their defense relationships, technological maturity, geospatial and remote-sensing demand, and ability to support regional expansion.\n\n\nCORE RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\nREGIONAL STRATEGY AND MARKET DEVELOPMENT\n\n - Develop and execute Matter’s government and strategic business-development strategy for the Indo-Pacific.\n\n - Create differentiated market-entry plans for each priority country based on mission demand, acquisition structures, available budgets, local industrial requirements, and Matter’s technical readiness.\n\n - Identify the defense, intelligence, civil-government, scientific, environmental, infrastructure, and commercial missions where Matter’s sensing and intelligence capabilities provide the strongest customer value.\n\n - Prioritize markets and opportunities based on revenue potential, strategic importance, probability of capture, time to contract, technical fit, and required investment.\n\n - Maintain a regional operating plan that defines target countries, priority accounts, opportunity pipelines, expected bookings, partner strategies, and resource requirements.\n\n - Provide Matter’s leadership with clear recommendations regarding where the company should invest, partner, establish a local presence, or defer market entry.\n\n\nGOVERNMENT AND NATIONAL-SECURITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT\n\n - Establish relationships with defense ministries, armed services, intelligence organizations, civil-government agencies, space agencies, research organizations, and other relevant public-sector institutions.\n\n - Develop trusted relationships with senior mission users, technical stakeholders, acquisition officials, procurement organizations, and executive decision-makers.\n\n - Lead customer discovery to identify operational problems that can be addressed through Matter’s aircraft-based sensors, space-based sensors, satellite systems, data products, and intelligence capabilities.\n\n - Educate customers on Matter’s technology while gathering specific mission, performance, security, integration, contracting, and deployment requirements.\n\n - Develop opportunities for demonstrations, evaluations, pilot programs, research agreements, data purchases, sensor sales, satellite partnerships, and operational programs.\n\n - Build demand before formal procurements are released and help shape requirements around problems Matter is uniquely positioned to solve.\n\n - Navigate country-specific acquisition processes, budget cycles, tender procedures, contracting mechanisms, security requirements, and industrial-participation expectations.\n\n - Represent Matter at senior-level government meetings, industry events, trade missions, exercises, demonstrations, conferences, and partner engagements.\n\n\nCAPTURE AND OPPORTUNITY MANAGEMENT\n\n - Own the full lifecycle of qualified Indo-Pacific opportunities from initial identification through contract award.\n\n - Develop capture plans that identify the customer mission, decision-makers, acquisition path, funding source, competitive environment, evaluation criteria, partner strategy, technical solution, pricing considerations, and actions required to win.\n\n - Establish clear qualification standards and avoid committing company resources to poorly defined or low-probability opportunities.\n\n - Maintain accurate account, contact, activity, pipeline, probability, value, timing, and next-action information in Matter’s CRM.\n\n - Build and manage a forecast covering near-term pipeline development, proposal activity, anticipated awards, bookings, and long-term revenue.\n\n - Coordinate internal bid and no-bid decisions with the Head of Government Growth and Matter’s executive and technical leadership.\n\n - Lead or support responses to requests for information, requests for proposals, tenders, grant programs, research solicitations, and other acquisition opportunities.\n\n - Coordinate proposal development across technical, legal, financial, operational, and executive stakeholders.\n\n - Support commercial structuring, pricing, negotiation, and contract closure.\n\n - Develop strategies for converting initial demonstrations or pilot programs into recurring data purchases, larger deployments, satellite programs, or multi-year contracts.\n\n\nPARTNERSHIPS AND REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT\n\n - Identify and develop relationships with regional aerospace and defense primes, satellite operators, system integrators, analytics companies, research organizations, universities, distributors, and specialized local partners.\n\n - Determine where Matter should sell directly, work through a local representative, establish a reseller relationship, join a consortium, subcontract to a prime, or pursue an opportunity as the prime contractor.\n\n - Build joint go-to-market and account plans with strategic partners.\n\n - Evaluate prospective partners based on customer access, technical contribution, contracting position, reputation, incentives, and ability to improve Matter’s probability of winning.\n\n - Develop sovereign or locally integrated solutions where required by customer policy or market conditions.\n\n - Support negotiations involving teaming agreements, memoranda of understanding, reseller arrangements, data partnerships, joint demonstrations, and other strategic agreements.\n\n - Ensure that partner relationships generate measurable access, opportunities, customer insight, or revenue rather than becoming passive affiliations.\n\n\nPRODUCT AND TECHNICAL ALIGNMENT\n\n - Translate customer missions and operational requirements into clear inputs for Matter’s engineering and product teams.\n\n - Work with technical leaders to define demonstrations, pilot programs, minimum viable capabilities, product configurations, integration approaches, and development priorities.\n\n - Ensure that proposed solutions are technically credible, operationally relevant, commercially viable, and deliverable within agreed timelines.\n\n - Develop a strong working understanding of spectral imaging, Earth observation, remote sensing, geospatial intelligence, satellite systems, aircraft-based collection, data products, and analytics.\n\n - Help create country- and mission-specific sales materials, concept-of-operations documents, technical briefs, demonstration plans, and customer presentations.\n\n - Communicate product limitations and development dependencies honestly while creating credible paths from current capabilities to future operational programs.\n\n - Provide structured feedback on regional customer requirements, competitors, pricing expectations, procurement barriers, and product demand.\n\n\nINTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS AND COMPLIANCE\n\n - Work with legal and executive leadership to evaluate export-control, sanctions, data-security, technology-transfer, intellectual-property, licensing, and foreign-partner considerations.\n\n - Incorporate applicable U.S. and local-country regulations into account and capture strategies.\n\n - Identify localization, sovereign-control, data-residency, security, offset, local-content, or industrial-participation requirements that could affect an opportunity.\n\n - Help determine when Matter may require local entities, employees, representatives, distributors, facilities, or other forms of in-country presence.\n\n - Conduct appropriate diligence on consultants, representatives, partners, and intermediaries.\n\n - Maintain high standards of ethics, transparency, recordkeeping, and compliance in all government and commercial engagements.\n\n\nINTERNAL LEADERSHIP\n\n - Serve as Matter’s internal authority on Indo-Pacific government markets, customers, acquisition systems, competitors, and partnership ecosystems.\n\n - Build repeatable regional business-development processes that can scale as Matter grows.\n\n - Coordinate international activity with Matter’s U.S. government-growth strategy so that customer engagement, product development, and partnerships reinforce one another.\n\n - Help determine the timing and structure of future regional hiring.\n\n - Recruit and manage regional personnel, consultants, advisors, representatives, or channel partners as the business justifies expansion.\n\n - Contribute to broader company strategy regarding international markets, product priorities, capital allocation, and organizational growth.\n\n - Present a scalable plan for Matter’s longer-term regional presence, staffing, partnerships, and revenue growth.\n\n\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\n\n - Approximately 8–12 or more years of experience in international business development, government sales, capture management, strategic partnerships, or a closely related field.\n\n - At least five years of relevant experience working with defense, intelligence, space, civil-government, or national-security customers in the Indo-Pacific.\n\n - Demonstrated experience developing and closing complex government, defense, aerospace, technology, data, or enterprise opportunities.\n\n - Track record of managing long-cycle, multi-stakeholder sales and capture processes.\n\n - Strong understanding of government acquisition, procurement, budgeting, contracting, and tender processes in one or more priority Indo-Pacific countries.\n\n - Established network among relevant government, defense, intelligence, aerospace, space, geospatial, or technology stakeholders in the region.\n\n - Experience building country strategies, account plans, capture plans, partner strategies, and qualified pipelines.\n\n - Ability to engage credibly with senior government officials, military officers, intelligence professionals, acquisition personnel, engineers, and industry executives.\n\n - Ability to understand technically complex products and translate them into mission, operational, and economic value.\n\n - Experience coordinating proposals, demonstrations, negotiations, and contracts across multidisciplinary teams.\n\n - Strong commercial judgment, including the ability to distinguish genuine opportunities from unfunded interest.\n\n - Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.\n\n - Ability and willingness to travel extensively throughout the region and periodically to the United States.\n\n - High standards of integrity and demonstrated ability to operate appropriately in sensitive government and international environments.\n\n\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\n\n - Experience in Earth observation, remote sensing, spectral imaging, geospatial intelligence, satellite systems, defense technology, aerospace, artificial intelligence, or data and analytics.\n\n - Experience selling to or partnering with defense and intelligence organizations in Japan, South Korea, Australia, or Singapore.\n\n - Demonstrated success closing multi-million-dollar or multi-year government contracts.\n\n - Experience with both direct government sales and partner-led market-entry models.\n\n - Experience working in an early-stage or high-growth technology company.\n\n - Knowledge of U.S. export-control requirements and international technology-transfer considerations.\n\n - Familiarity with sovereign capability requirements, data-residency considerations, industrial-participation programs, offsets, or local-content requirements.\n\n - Experience structuring demonstrations or pilot programs that subsequently converted into operational procurements.\n\n - Professional fluency in Japanese or Korean.\n\n - Additional language capability relevant to Southeast Asia.\n\n - Existing eligibility for access to relevant government, defense, or industry facilities and programs.\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Head of Product and Deployment to translate customer needs and company strategy into a clear product roadmap and reliable deployments. This leader will connect customers, commercial teams, product, engineering, and operations as Matter moves from pilots to repeatable intelligence products.
Own product strategy and maintain a roadmap that reflects customer priorities, technical readiness, and company objectives.
Turn customer problems and field feedback into clear product requirements and prioritization decisions.
Define deployment plans, readiness criteria, and operating handoffs for customer pilots and production programs.
Coordinate across commercial, engineering, data, and operations teams to resolve tradeoffs and keep delivery on track.
Create a disciplined feedback loop that measures product performance and informs the next iteration.
Experience leading product development and delivery for technically complex products or services.
Ability to translate customer workflows into clear requirements, priorities, and execution plans.
Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.
Comfort operating in an early-stage environment with evolving products and incomplete information.
Experience with enterprise, industrial, geospatial, aerospace, or data products.
Experience taking pilot programs into repeatable operational deployments.
Familiarity with products that combine hardware, data pipelines, analytics, and software interfaces.
The company has a clear, prioritized roadmap tied to customer outcomes and technical milestones.
Deployments move from planning to operation with explicit owners, readiness criteria, and feedback loops.
Customer learning is captured consistently and translated into product decisions.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Head of Product and Deployment to translate customer needs and company strategy into a clear product roadmap and reliable deployments. This leader will connect customers, commercial teams, product, engineering, and operations as Matter moves from pilots to repeatable intelligence products.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Own product strategy and maintain a roadmap that reflects customer priorities, technical readiness, and company objectives.\n\n - Turn customer problems and field feedback into clear product requirements and prioritization decisions.\n\n - Define deployment plans, readiness criteria, and operating handoffs for customer pilots and production programs.\n\n - Coordinate across commercial, engineering, data, and operations teams to resolve tradeoffs and keep delivery on track.\n\n - Create a disciplined feedback loop that measures product performance and informs the next iteration.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Experience leading product development and delivery for technically complex products or services.\n\n - Ability to translate customer workflows into clear requirements, priorities, and execution plans.\n\n - Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.\n\n - Comfort operating in an early-stage environment with evolving products and incomplete information.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with enterprise, industrial, geospatial, aerospace, or data products.\n\n - Experience taking pilot programs into repeatable operational deployments.\n\n - Familiarity with products that combine hardware, data pipelines, analytics, and software interfaces.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - The company has a clear, prioritized roadmap tied to customer outcomes and technical milestones.\n\n - Deployments move from planning to operation with explicit owners, readiness criteria, and feedback loops.\n\n - Customer learning is captured consistently and translated into product decisions.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"2f5ea22c-a087-4aaf-8be6-52ceeb10ac3b","title":"Head of Marketing","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-15T02:10:10.019+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/2f5ea22c-a087-4aaf-8be6-52ceeb10ac3b","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/2f5ea22c-a087-4aaf-8be6-52ceeb10ac3b/application","descriptionHtml":"Matter Intelligence is building a first-of-its-kind physical intelligence company at the intersection of advanced sensor hardware, AI, and compute. Our team of former NASA, JPL, Palantir, and Google leaders are developing next-generation airborne and spaceborne sensing systems and the intelligence products that turn those observations into detailed understanding of the physical world.
We are looking for the person who will make the world understand why that matters.
Matter is hiring a Head of Marketing & Communications to own how the company—and the people building it—show up in the world.
This is not a traditional corporate marketing job. We are looking for someone who can build a brand people want to be associated with. Someone who can make an obscure technical breakthrough feel inevitable, make the right engineer want to quit their job and join Matter, make an investor feel like they are discovering the next great company before everyone else does, and make the technology community pay attention every time Matter has something to say.
You will own Matter's brand, communications, content, social media, PR, executive presence, events, website, and broader cultural footprint. You will work directly with the CEO and leadership team to decide what stories Matter tells, how we tell them, where we tell them, and who needs to hear them.
Most importantly, you need taste. You should have strong instincts about what is interesting, what looks good, what sounds intelligent, what feels forced, and what will actually resonate with the kinds of people Matter wants to attract and the cultural moment we’re in.
You will be expected to move quickly, create from nothing, and produce results without waiting for someone to hand you a playbook.
Own and continually sharpen Matter's identity, voice, visual language, and position in the market.
Make Matter feel like one of the most ambitious, technically credible, and culturally interesting companies being built.
Guide the creative direction behind everything we put into the world—from our website and launch materials to recruiting collateral, photography, videos, presentations, merchandise, events, and physical spaces.
Maintain an exceptionally high bar for quality. Matter should never look or sound like a generic aerospace company, defense contractor, AI startup, or corporate marketing department.
Build a team of designers, photographers, filmmakers, web developers, agencies, and other creative vendors when necessary—but be capable of doing a surprising amount yourself.
Own Matter's presence across X, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms
Develop a social strategy that materially grows Matter's audience and creates sustained interest around what we are building.
Turn engineering milestones, flight tests, satellite development, technical discoveries, company culture, customer work, and the people behind Matter into compelling stories.
Create moments people want to talk about, share, and be part of.
Build anticipation around launches and milestones rather than simply announcing them after they happen.
Know when Matter should participate in a conversation, when we should create the conversation, and when we should stay quiet.
The goal isn't \"engagement.\" The goal is to create genuine gravity around Matter and grow mindshare with key audiences.
Own and dramatically expand the CEO's external presence.
Develop his voice and content across X and LinkedIn and help establish him as a respected, interesting, and recognizable voice across deep tech, AI, space, hardware, and venture-backed technology.
Ghostwrite posts, essays, threads, commentary, talks, and other content while preserving an authentic voice.
Create opportunities for him to appear on the right podcasts, stages, panels, dinners, salons, conferences, and private gatherings.
Know which rooms matter—and find a way to get Matter into them.
Build relationships with podcast hosts, conference organizers, founders, investors, journalists, researchers, creators, and other influential members of the technology ecosystem.
You should think beyond traditional PR. Your job is to help create an aura around the founder and company that compounds over time.
Build relationships with journalists, editors, publications, newsletters, and other media covering technology, AI, aerospace, defense, science, and startups.
Generate meaningful earned media for Matter.
Develop stories journalists actually want to write rather than simply sending press releases.
Understand how news cycles work and recognize opportunities to put Matter into relevant conversations.
Create launch strategies around major technical and company milestones.
Know when to pitch an exclusive, when to build momentum through social, when to embargo a story, when to provide background, and when to let the technology speak for itself.
Develop Matter's broader narrative and ensure that our message remains consistent as the company expands across markets and products.
You need to be an exceptional writer.
Matter is building complicated things. You should be capable of sitting with an optical engineer, AI researcher, satellite engineer, or customer, understanding what is genuinely interesting about their work, and translating it into something intelligent people actually want to read.
Own Matter's long-form editorial platform and blog.
Develop technical explainers, essays, company announcements, opinion pieces, founder communications, product stories, interviews, launch content, and behind-the-scenes engineering stories.
Ghostwrite for executives, engineers, researchers, and other members of the team.
Use LLMs aggressively where they make you faster—but have enough writing ability and judgment that the final product never sounds like it came from one.
You should care obsessively about language.
Matter should be present wherever the future of technology is being built.
You will own our strategy for conferences, speaking engagements, industry gatherings, private events, dinners, launch events, and other opportunities to bring people into the Matter ecosystem.
Determine which conferences are actually worth attending.
Get Matter executives and technical leaders onto the right stages.
Develop creative activations around major events instead of defaulting to a booth and a banner.
Help Matter host its own dinners, technical salons, launch events, recruiting events, and gatherings.
Build relationships across the deep-tech, AI, space, defense-tech, and venture communities.
We want someone who already participates in these worlds—not someone learning about them for the first time.
Marketing at Matter is also recruiting.
Partner with leadership and recruiting to make Matter one of the companies that exceptional engineers and researchers hear about and want to work for.
Show people what it feels like to build here. Work with the team to understand what’s special about what they’re making, the stories that can be told, and help the world understand what makes us special.
Tell the stories of our engineers, missions, technology, facilities, aircraft, satellites, experiments, failures, breakthroughs, and ambitions.
Develop recruiting campaigns and content that reach technical communities traditional recruiters cannot.
Create the kind of company presence that causes exceptional people to send us an email simply because they want to be involved.
Help Matter become one of the companies that the venture ecosystem talks about before a fundraising process ever begins.
Tell our technical and company story in a way that communicates both the magnitude of what we are building and the credibility of the people building it.
Understand how the venture-backed technology ecosystem works, how information travels through it, which communities shape perception, and how great companies build momentum.
Create FOMO without manufacturing hype.
You are probably unusually online.
You follow great technology companies before everyone else starts talking about them. You know which founders are interesting, which writers are worth reading, which podcasts matter, which conferences are actually good, and which parties everyone somehow ends up at.
You understand the culture of venture-backed deep tech.
You have extremely strong taste and equally strong opinions about what makes great technology marketing.
You are an exceptional writer.
You can understand highly technical subjects without flattening them into meaningless marketing language.
You know how to make complicated things feel understandable without making them feel simple.
You can move comfortably between an engineering lab, a journalist's inbox, a founder dinner, a conference backstage, and a social media feed.
You are highly creative but intensely results-oriented.
You have a huge motor. You move quickly, follow through relentlessly, and create opportunities rather than waiting for them.
You are humble enough to do whatever needs to get done.
One day you might be developing the narrative for a major satellite announcement. The next you might be editing a CEO post, coordinating a photographer, fixing copy on the website, pitching a journalist, finding a dinner invitation, reviewing merchandise samples, and helping set up an event.
None of those things should feel beneath you.
We care much more about what you have actually made happen than the exact titles you've held.
Strong candidates may have backgrounds in startup communications, technology journalism, venture, founder-led media, brand, growth, content, creative direction, PR, or some combination of all of them.
What matters is that you can demonstrate:
Exceptional writing.
Exceptional taste.
A track record of growing audiences.
An instinct for finding and telling great stories.
Deep familiarity with the venture-backed technology ecosystem.
Relationships across media, technology, founders, investors, creators, or events.
The ability to generate earned attention rather than simply buy it.
Comfort working directly with founders and senior executives.
The ability to understand technical products and communicate them credibly.
High agency and an ability to operate with very little structure.
Speed, creativity, judgment, and relentless follow-through.
Experience in deep tech, space, AI, hardware, defense technology, robotics, science, or similarly technical industries is highly valuable.
You see an incredible engineering test and immediately know there are five different stories hiding inside it.
You have rewritten a company's announcement because it was technically impressive but painfully boring.
You have opinions about which technology companies have great brands—and can explain precisely why.
You believe most corporate social media is terrible.
You know that building a founder's public profile involves much more than scheduling posts.
You understand that sometimes the most important marketing opportunity happens at a 20-person dinner rather than a 20,000-person conference.
You can call a journalist, text a founder, brief a designer, interview an engineer, edit an essay, and review a website without changing personalities.
You don't need to be told exactly what to do next.
And when something important is happening at Matter, your instinct is:
Your job is ultimately simple:
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
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Someone who can make an obscure technical breakthrough feel inevitable, make the right engineer want to quit their job and join Matter, make an investor feel like they are discovering the next great company before everyone else does, and make the technology community pay attention every time Matter has something to say.\n\nYou will own Matter's brand, communications, content, social media, PR, executive presence, events, website, and broader cultural footprint. You will work directly with the CEO and leadership team to decide what stories Matter tells, how we tell them, where we tell them, and who needs to hear them.\n\nMost importantly, you need taste. You should have strong instincts about what is interesting, what looks good, what sounds intelligent, what feels forced, and what will actually resonate with the kinds of people Matter wants to attract and the cultural moment we’re in.\n\nYou will be expected to move quickly, create from nothing, and produce results without waiting for someone to hand you a playbook.\n\n\nWHAT YOU'LL OWN\n\n\nBUILD THE MATTER BRAND\n\nOwn and continually sharpen Matter's identity, voice, visual language, and position in the market.\n\nMake Matter feel like one of the most ambitious, technically credible, and culturally interesting companies being built.\n\nGuide the creative direction behind everything we put into the world—from our website and launch materials to recruiting collateral, photography, videos, presentations, merchandise, events, and physical spaces.\n\nMaintain an exceptionally high bar for quality. Matter should never look or sound like a generic aerospace company, defense contractor, AI startup, or corporate marketing department.\n\nBuild a team of designers, photographers, filmmakers, web developers, agencies, and other creative vendors when necessary—but be capable of doing a surprising amount yourself.\n\n\nMAKE MATTER IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE\n\nOwn Matter's presence across X, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms\n\nDevelop a social strategy that materially grows Matter's audience and creates sustained interest around what we are building.\n\nTurn engineering milestones, flight tests, satellite development, technical discoveries, company culture, customer work, and the people behind Matter into compelling stories.\n\nCreate moments people want to talk about, share, and be part of.\n\nBuild anticipation around launches and milestones rather than simply announcing them after they happen.\n\nKnow when Matter should participate in a conversation, when we should create the conversation, and when we should stay quiet.\n\nThe goal isn't \"engagement.\" The goal is to create genuine gravity around Matter and grow mindshare with key audiences.\n\n\nBUILD THE CEO INTO A RECOGNIZED TECHNOLOGY VOICE\n\nOwn and dramatically expand the CEO's external presence.\n\nDevelop his voice and content across X and LinkedIn and help establish him as a respected, interesting, and recognizable voice across deep tech, AI, space, hardware, and venture-backed technology.\n\nGhostwrite posts, essays, threads, commentary, talks, and other content while preserving an authentic voice.\n\nCreate opportunities for him to appear on the right podcasts, stages, panels, dinners, salons, conferences, and private gatherings.\n\nKnow which rooms matter—and find a way to get Matter into them.\n\nBuild relationships with podcast hosts, conference organizers, founders, investors, journalists, researchers, creators, and other influential members of the technology ecosystem.\n\nYou should think beyond traditional PR. Your job is to help create an aura around the founder and company that compounds over time.\n\n\nOWN PRESS AND NARRATIVE\n\nBuild relationships with journalists, editors, publications, newsletters, and other media covering technology, AI, aerospace, defense, science, and startups.\n\nGenerate meaningful earned media for Matter.\n\nDevelop stories journalists actually want to write rather than simply sending press releases.\n\nUnderstand how news cycles work and recognize opportunities to put Matter into relevant conversations.\n\nCreate launch strategies around major technical and company milestones.\n\nKnow when to pitch an exclusive, when to build momentum through social, when to embargo a story, when to provide background, and when to let the technology speak for itself.\n\nDevelop Matter's broader narrative and ensure that our message remains consistent as the company expands across markets and products.\n\n\nTURN DEEP TECHNOLOGY INTO GREAT STORIES\n\nYou need to be an exceptional writer.\n\nMatter is building complicated things. You should be capable of sitting with an optical engineer, AI researcher, satellite engineer, or customer, understanding what is genuinely interesting about their work, and translating it into something intelligent people actually want to read.\n\nOwn Matter's long-form editorial platform and blog.\n\nDevelop technical explainers, essays, company announcements, opinion pieces, founder communications, product stories, interviews, launch content, and behind-the-scenes engineering stories.\n\nGhostwrite for executives, engineers, researchers, and other members of the team.\n\nUse LLMs aggressively where they make you faster—but have enough writing ability and judgment that the final product never sounds like it came from one.\n\nYou should care obsessively about language.\n\n\nBUILD MATTER'S PLACE IN THE DEEP-TECH ECOSYSTEM\n\nMatter should be present wherever the future of technology is being built.\n\nYou will own our strategy for conferences, speaking engagements, industry gatherings, private events, dinners, launch events, and other opportunities to bring people into the Matter ecosystem.\n\nDetermine which conferences are actually worth attending.\n\nGet Matter executives and technical leaders onto the right stages.\n\nDevelop creative activations around major events instead of defaulting to a booth and a banner.\n\nHelp Matter host its own dinners, technical salons, launch events, recruiting events, and gatherings.\n\nBuild relationships across the deep-tech, AI, space, defense-tech, and venture communities.\n\nWe want someone who already participates in these worlds—not someone learning about them for the first time.\n\n\nMAKE GREAT PEOPLE WANT TO JOIN MATTER\n\nMarketing at Matter is also recruiting.\n\nPartner with leadership and recruiting to make Matter one of the companies that exceptional engineers and researchers hear about and want to work for.\n\nShow people what it feels like to build here. Work with the team to understand what’s special about what they’re making, the stories that can be told, and help the world understand what makes us special.\n\nTell the stories of our engineers, missions, technology, facilities, aircraft, satellites, experiments, failures, breakthroughs, and ambitions.\n\nDevelop recruiting campaigns and content that reach technical communities traditional recruiters cannot.\n\nCreate the kind of company presence that causes exceptional people to send us an email simply because they want to be involved.\n\n\nMAKE INVESTORS WANT IN\n\nHelp Matter become one of the companies that the venture ecosystem talks about before a fundraising process ever begins.\n\nTell our technical and company story in a way that communicates both the magnitude of what we are building and the credibility of the people building it.\n\nUnderstand how the venture-backed technology ecosystem works, how information travels through it, which communities shape perception, and how great companies build momentum.\n\nCreate FOMO without manufacturing hype.\n\n\nWHO YOU ARE\n\nYou are probably unusually online.\n\nYou follow great technology companies before everyone else starts talking about them. You know which founders are interesting, which writers are worth reading, which podcasts matter, which conferences are actually good, and which parties everyone somehow ends up at.\n\nYou understand the culture of venture-backed deep tech.\n\nYou have extremely strong taste and equally strong opinions about what makes great technology marketing.\n\nYou are an exceptional writer.\n\nYou can understand highly technical subjects without flattening them into meaningless marketing language.\n\nYou know how to make complicated things feel understandable without making them feel simple.\n\nYou can move comfortably between an engineering lab, a journalist's inbox, a founder dinner, a conference backstage, and a social media feed.\n\nYou are highly creative but intensely results-oriented.\n\nYou have a huge motor. You move quickly, follow through relentlessly, and create opportunities rather than waiting for them.\n\nYou are humble enough to do whatever needs to get done.\n\nOne day you might be developing the narrative for a major satellite announcement. The next you might be editing a CEO post, coordinating a photographer, fixing copy on the website, pitching a journalist, finding a dinner invitation, reviewing merchandise samples, and helping set up an event.\n\nNone of those things should feel beneath you.\n\n\nWHAT WE CARE ABOUT\n\nWe care much more about what you have actually made happen than the exact titles you've held.\n\nStrong candidates may have backgrounds in startup communications, technology journalism, venture, founder-led media, brand, growth, content, creative direction, PR, or some combination of all of them.\n\nWhat matters is that you can demonstrate:\n\n - Exceptional writing.\n\n - Exceptional taste.\n\n - A track record of growing audiences.\n\n - An instinct for finding and telling great stories.\n\n - Deep familiarity with the venture-backed technology ecosystem.\n\n - Relationships across media, technology, founders, investors, creators, or events.\n\n - The ability to generate earned attention rather than simply buy it.\n\n - Comfort working directly with founders and senior executives.\n\n - The ability to understand technical products and communicate them credibly.\n\n - High agency and an ability to operate with very little structure.\n\n - Speed, creativity, judgment, and relentless follow-through.\n\nExperience in deep tech, space, AI, hardware, defense technology, robotics, science, or similarly technical industries is highly valuable.\n\n\nYOU MIGHT BE A GREAT FIT IF\n\nYou see an incredible engineering test and immediately know there are five different stories hiding inside it.\n\nYou have rewritten a company's announcement because it was technically impressive but painfully boring.\n\nYou have opinions about which technology companies have great brands—and can explain precisely why.\n\nYou believe most corporate social media is terrible.\n\nYou know that building a founder's public profile involves much more than scheduling posts.\n\nYou understand that sometimes the most important marketing opportunity happens at a 20-person dinner rather than a 20,000-person conference.\n\nYou can call a journalist, text a founder, brief a designer, interview an engineer, edit an essay, and review a website without changing personalities.\n\nYou don't need to be told exactly what to do next.\n\nAnd when something important is happening at Matter, your instinct is:\n\n\nHOW DO WE MAKE THE RIGHT PEOPLE CARE ABOUT THIS?\n\n\nTHE MISSION\n\nYour job is ultimately simple:\n\n\nMAKE MATTER A COMPANY THAT THE WORLD'S BEST ENGINEERS WANT TO JOIN, THE WORLD'S BEST INVESTORS WANT TO BACK, CUSTOMERS WANT TO WORK WITH, JOURNALISTS WANT TO WRITE ABOUT, AND THE TECHNOLOGY ECOSYSTEM FEELS IT CANNOT AFFORD TO IGNORE.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Program Planning and Analysis is a branch of Program Management that relies on engineering and science as well as business and management grounding. As a master planner and business data analyst at Matter, you will have insight into every aspect of Matter’s work, from instrument engineering, research and development, facility and resource planning, data analysis, machine learning and the construction of Matter’s superintelligent vision ecosystem. You will not need to be an expert in all or any of these areas, but familiarity will be extremely valuable, and you will be crucial in helping our team organize, plan and execute their work.
You will work closely with program management and team members, maintaining the Matter Integrated Master Schedule, establishing / maintaining traceability to lower-level scheduling and planning tools used by team members, assist engineers and scientists in organizing and planning their work, and help create and use data analytics tools to measure and report on team execution and performance.
You will also assist the program management team in creating, reviewing and analyzing other data sets relevant to the performance and execution of Matter’s work, which may include MRP/material requirements planning and supply chain, product development plans and reports, and budgeting, cost, and schedule performance, both internally and with input from vendors.
Work with Matter's motivated and collaborative teams to guide them on best practices for organizing, planning, executing, and reporting on scheduled work
Update and maintain Matter’s Integrated Master Schedule with team members, team leads, and vendors
Apply best scheduling practices including performance of logic reviews, duration reviews, health checks, cost/schedule integration (as applicable), schedule risk analysis, and baseline management
Maintain traceability to lower level schedules in a variety of tools, exercising judgment on how to summarize lower level plans while still accurately tracking and reporting task progress
Participate in regular all-hands meetings and technology progress briefings to stay current with Matter's rapidly maturing products.
Assist in the creation of, and maintain a comprehensive reporting suite for schedule execution and performance, with reporting on a biweekly and monthly basis to internal stakeholders and leadership
Provide team members and team leads custom reports, as requested, to assist in the management and execution of that team’s tasks
Under the direction of program management, team leads, or other stakeholders, create and maintain analysis products for business artifacts not directly related to the Integrated Master Schedule, including but not limited to vendor cost performance, team resource planning, order tracking and supply chain reporting, procurement and purchase order tracking, and tactical level task tracking
Bachelor’s in engineering or science discipline, business management and administration with focus on engineering or planning, construction management, or equivalent practical experience.
Typically 5+ years of relevant experience in developing and maintaining schedules for aerospace, construction management, or other large project scheduling or planning
Strong ability to apply best scheduling practices and maintain logically valid and meaningful schedules
Advanced user of MS Project, Primavera P6, Open Plan or similar scheduling software, and Microsoft Excel
Experience in creating and maintaining execution and performance reporting, reporting not just the data but applying expertise to guide teams teams to understand and interpret the data effectively
Ability and enthusiasm to expand knowledge and technical skillset
Experience in working on deployed/completed projects, with experience throughout the lifecycle, with particular focus on experience in implementation and assembly, integration and test phases.
Comfortable and capable of working with diverse teams with widely varying experience in scheduling and planning their work - ability to meet team members where they are and provide guidance on how to organize and plan their work
Comfortable interfacing with all levels of management, team leads, and executives, and providing clear and actionable reporting metrics from detail tactical-level tasks to strategic-level initiatives
Experience with creating and maintaining business data analytics in PowerPivot for Excel, Power BI, R, or other reporting and analysis tools
Familiarity with systems engineering, program management principles, machine learning and AI tools
Experience in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary, startup, research, aerospace, or mission-operations environment.
NASA or Aerospace flight mission / instrument experience
Familiarity or experience with Earned Value Management
Experience in risk management practices and developing and executing schedule risk assessments (Monte Carlo analysis, Sensitivity analysis, etc).
Experience in configuration management, including baseline change control
Within 30 days, you have taken over schedule statusing and implement a reliable weekly cadence with basic reporting with teams that currently have schedules
Within 60 days, you have delivered and expanded set of biweekly and monthly reporting products and expanded schedules and statusing to all teams in the company
Within 120 days, you have collaborated in, or lead the development of, a comprehensive schedule performance reporting suite, including summary schedules, critical path analyses, performance and execution metrics, trend analysis, forecasting, and schedule risk analysis
This role is based in El Segundo, CA. Onsite work is required, with field deployments and test campaigns as needed.Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or otherwise eligible for authorization under U.S. export control laws, including ITAR and EAR requirements.
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nProgram Planning and Analysis is a branch of Program Management that relies on engineering and science as well as business and management grounding. As a master planner and business data analyst at Matter, you will have insight into every aspect of Matter’s work, from instrument engineering, research and development, facility and resource planning, data analysis, machine learning and the construction of Matter’s superintelligent vision ecosystem. You will not need to be an expert in all or any of these areas, but familiarity will be extremely valuable, and you will be crucial in helping our team organize, plan and execute their work.\n\nYou will work closely with program management and team members, maintaining the Matter Integrated Master Schedule, establishing / maintaining traceability to lower-level scheduling and planning tools used by team members, assist engineers and scientists in organizing and planning their work, and help create and use data analytics tools to measure and report on team execution and performance.\n\nYou will also assist the program management team in creating, reviewing and analyzing other data sets relevant to the performance and execution of Matter’s work, which may include MRP/material requirements planning and supply chain, product development plans and reports, and budgeting, cost, and schedule performance, both internally and with input from vendors.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\nMASTER SCHEDULE DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE\n\n - Work with Matter's motivated and collaborative teams to guide them on best practices for organizing, planning, executing, and reporting on scheduled work\n\n - Update and maintain Matter’s Integrated Master Schedule with team members, team leads, and vendors\n\n - Apply best scheduling practices including performance of logic reviews, duration reviews, health checks, cost/schedule integration (as applicable), schedule risk analysis, and baseline management\n\n - Maintain traceability to lower level schedules in a variety of tools, exercising judgment on how to summarize lower level plans while still accurately tracking and reporting task progress\n\n - Participate in regular all-hands meetings and technology progress briefings to stay current with Matter's rapidly maturing products.\n\n\nSCHEDULE PERFORMANCE REPORTING PRODUCTS\n\n - Assist in the creation of, and maintain a comprehensive reporting suite for schedule execution and performance, with reporting on a biweekly and monthly basis to internal stakeholders and leadership\n\n - Provide team members and team leads custom reports, as requested, to assist in the management and execution of that team’s tasks\n\n\nOTHER BUSINESS ANALYSIS PRODUCTS\n\n - Under the direction of program management, team leads, or other stakeholders, create and maintain analysis products for business artifacts not directly related to the Integrated Master Schedule, including but not limited to vendor cost performance, team resource planning, order tracking and supply chain reporting, procurement and purchase order tracking, and tactical level task tracking\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Bachelor’s in engineering or science discipline, business management and administration with focus on engineering or planning, construction management, or equivalent practical experience.\n\n - Typically 5+ years of relevant experience in developing and maintaining schedules for aerospace, construction management, or other large project scheduling or planning\n\n - Strong ability to apply best scheduling practices and maintain logically valid and meaningful schedules\n\n - Advanced user of MS Project, Primavera P6, Open Plan or similar scheduling software, and Microsoft Excel\n\n - Experience in creating and maintaining execution and performance reporting, reporting not just the data but applying expertise to guide teams teams to understand and interpret the data effectively\n\n - Ability and enthusiasm to expand knowledge and technical skillset\n\n - Experience in working on deployed/completed projects, with experience throughout the lifecycle, with particular focus on experience in implementation and assembly, integration and test phases.\n\n - Comfortable and capable of working with diverse teams with widely varying experience in scheduling and planning their work - ability to meet team members where they are and provide guidance on how to organize and plan their work\n\n - Comfortable interfacing with all levels of management, team leads, and executives, and providing clear and actionable reporting metrics from detail tactical-level tasks to strategic-level initiatives\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with creating and maintaining business data analytics in PowerPivot for Excel, Power BI, R, or other reporting and analysis tools\n\n - Familiarity with systems engineering, program management principles, machine learning and AI tools\n\n - Experience in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary, startup, research, aerospace, or mission-operations environment.\n\n\nOTHER PLUSES\n\n - NASA or Aerospace flight mission / instrument experience\n\n - Familiarity or experience with Earned Value Management\n\n - Experience in risk management practices and developing and executing schedule risk assessments (Monte Carlo analysis, Sensitivity analysis, etc).\n\n - Experience in configuration management, including baseline change control\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Within 30 days, you have taken over schedule statusing and implement a reliable weekly cadence with basic reporting with teams that currently have schedules\n\n - Within 60 days, you have delivered and expanded set of biweekly and monthly reporting products and expanded schedules and statusing to all teams in the company\n\n - Within 120 days, you have collaborated in, or lead the development of, a comprehensive schedule performance reporting suite, including summary schedules, critical path analyses, performance and execution metrics, trend analysis, forecasting, and schedule risk analysis\n\n\nLOCATION & ITAR\n\nThis role is based in El Segundo, CA. Onsite work is required, with field deployments and test campaigns as needed.Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or otherwise eligible for authorization under U.S. export control laws, including ITAR and EAR requirements.\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Deputy Program Manager to help drive execution across complex sensing, airborne, and space programs. Reporting to Tim Clark, this role will turn program objectives into coordinated schedules, decisions, risk management, and clear communication across teams.
Maintain integrated program plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and action tracking.
Coordinate engineering, operations, supply chain, test, and customer-facing workstreams around shared program outcomes.
Prepare program reviews and concise status reporting that surface decisions, tradeoffs, and required follow-through.
Support requirements, configuration, verification, and delivery processes with clear ownership and traceability.
Identify execution gaps early and work with owners to resolve blockers or escalate decisions.
Experience coordinating complex technical programs with multiple disciplines and dependencies.
Strong planning, organization, written communication, and follow-through.
Ability to understand technical context well enough to connect schedules, risks, requirements, and decisions.
Comfort operating at both detailed working level and concise leadership-review level.
Experience with aerospace, defense, hardware development, flight programs, or other regulated technical environments.
Experience supporting customer, government, or partner reporting and milestone reviews.
Familiarity with systems engineering, configuration control, verification, or supply-chain execution.
Program plans reflect real dependencies, owners, and risks rather than static reporting.
Leadership and technical teams receive clear information in time to make decisions.
Milestones, actions, and customer commitments are tracked consistently through completion.
This role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Deputy Program Manager to help drive execution across complex sensing, airborne, and space programs. Reporting to Tim Clark, this role will turn program objectives into coordinated schedules, decisions, risk management, and clear communication across teams.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Maintain integrated program plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and action tracking.\n\n - Coordinate engineering, operations, supply chain, test, and customer-facing workstreams around shared program outcomes.\n\n - Prepare program reviews and concise status reporting that surface decisions, tradeoffs, and required follow-through.\n\n - Support requirements, configuration, verification, and delivery processes with clear ownership and traceability.\n\n - Identify execution gaps early and work with owners to resolve blockers or escalate decisions.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Experience coordinating complex technical programs with multiple disciplines and dependencies.\n\n - Strong planning, organization, written communication, and follow-through.\n\n - Ability to understand technical context well enough to connect schedules, risks, requirements, and decisions.\n\n - Comfort operating at both detailed working level and concise leadership-review level.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with aerospace, defense, hardware development, flight programs, or other regulated technical environments.\n\n - Experience supporting customer, government, or partner reporting and milestone reviews.\n\n - Familiarity with systems engineering, configuration control, verification, or supply-chain execution.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Program plans reflect real dependencies, owners, and risks rather than static reporting.\n\n - Leadership and technical teams receive clear information in time to make decisions.\n\n - Milestones, actions, and customer commitments are tracked consistently through completion.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"c03739fc-ae17-4cf9-b144-47d8355432e7","title":"Structural Analyst","department":"Hardware Engineering","team":"Hardware Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"El Segundo","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-15T02:11:15.043+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"El Segundo"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/c03739fc-ae17-4cf9-b144-47d8355432e7","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/c03739fc-ae17-4cf9-b144-47d8355432e7/application","descriptionHtml":"Welcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Structural Analyst to evaluate and improve the structural performance of sensing payloads and supporting hardware for airborne and space environments. The role will work closely with mechanical, optomechanical, systems, and test engineers from early design through qualification.
Analyze and size structural hardware for advanced electro-optic and infrared sensors across space, air, and ground platforms, accounting for loading, material selection, strength and stability margins, and practical configuration and load-path recommendations.
Perform strength, fatigue, fracture, classic hand-calculation, and finite-element analyses; develop finite-element models with appropriate requirements, processes, checks, and reports, from coarse system-level loads analyses through detailed stress analyses.
Partner with designers and engineers to identify structural risks and recommend practical design changes, including materials, adhesives, and mounting approaches that support optical performance.
Develop test and instrumentation plans—including strain-gauge approaches—support data review, and correlate analysis with observed performance.
Document analysis assumptions, methods, finite-element model requirements, results, failure mechanisms, and design margins for technical reviews and program decisions.
Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, civil, or a related engineering discipline, with a strong foundation in structural mechanics and engineering analysis.
Experience applying classic and finite-element analysis methods to real hardware, using FEA codes and associated pre- and post-processors, and interpreting results for design teams.
Ability to communicate assumptions, uncertainty, technical results, and design implications clearly.
Collaborative, multitasking approach to working across mechanical, systems, manufacturing, and test functions.
Experience with aerospace materials and manufacturing, precision instrumentation, optical payloads, or other high-performance hardware.
Experience correlating analytical models with environmental or qualification test data, including structures with metal and composite elements and bonded or bolted joints.
Familiarity with lightweight structures, dynamic environments, tight alignment requirements, GD&T, and failure mechanisms in metals and composites including instability and fatigue.
Structural risks and margins are understood early enough to guide design decisions.
Analyses are traceable, reviewable, and aligned with test and qualification plans.
The team enters integration and test with confidence in the structural design and its operating limits.
This role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Structural Analyst to evaluate and improve the structural performance of sensing payloads and supporting hardware for airborne and space environments. The role will work closely with mechanical, optomechanical, systems, and test engineers from early design through qualification.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Analyze and size structural hardware for advanced electro-optic and infrared sensors across space, air, and ground platforms, accounting for loading, material selection, strength and stability margins, and practical configuration and load-path recommendations.\n\n - Perform strength, fatigue, fracture, classic hand-calculation, and finite-element analyses; develop finite-element models with appropriate requirements, processes, checks, and reports, from coarse system-level loads analyses through detailed stress analyses.\n\n - Partner with designers and engineers to identify structural risks and recommend practical design changes, including materials, adhesives, and mounting approaches that support optical performance.\n\n - Develop test and instrumentation plans—including strain-gauge approaches—support data review, and correlate analysis with observed performance.\n\n - Document analysis assumptions, methods, finite-element model requirements, results, failure mechanisms, and design margins for technical reviews and program decisions.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, civil, or a related engineering discipline, with a strong foundation in structural mechanics and engineering analysis.\n\n - Experience applying classic and finite-element analysis methods to real hardware, using FEA codes and associated pre- and post-processors, and interpreting results for design teams.\n\n - Ability to communicate assumptions, uncertainty, technical results, and design implications clearly.\n\n - Collaborative, multitasking approach to working across mechanical, systems, manufacturing, and test functions.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with aerospace materials and manufacturing, precision instrumentation, optical payloads, or other high-performance hardware.\n\n - Experience correlating analytical models with environmental or qualification test data, including structures with metal and composite elements and bonded or bolted joints.\n\n - Familiarity with lightweight structures, dynamic environments, tight alignment requirements, GD&T, and failure mechanisms in metals and composites including instability and fatigue.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Structural risks and margins are understood early enough to guide design decisions.\n\n - Analyses are traceable, reviewable, and aligned with test and qualification plans.\n\n - The team enters integration and test with confidence in the structural design and its operating limits.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Control Systems Engineer to develop and validate the control approaches that enable stable, accurate performance of our sensing systems. The role will connect modeling and simulation with hardware integration, test, and real-world system behavior.
Develop models and control algorithms for relevant payload, pointing, stabilization, or subsystem functions.
Translate performance requirements into control architectures, interfaces, and verification plans.
Use simulation and test data to evaluate stability, robustness, and expected system performance.
Support software, firmware, electronics, mechanical, and systems teams during integration and troubleshooting.
Plan and execute model-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and system-level validation as appropriate.
Strong foundation in dynamics, feedback control, estimation, and system modeling.
Experience developing, simulating, and validating controls for a physical system.
Ability to work across analytical models, software implementation, hardware interfaces, and test data.
Clear technical communication and disciplined documentation of assumptions and performance results.
Experience with aerospace, robotics, precision pointing, optical systems, or other tightly controlled hardware.
Experience with real-time systems and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
Familiarity with sensor fusion, calibration, or estimation under uncertain operating conditions.
Control performance is modeled, tested, and understood against clear system requirements.
Algorithms transition cleanly from simulation into integrated hardware and software.
The team can diagnose performance limits and make informed design tradeoffs using validated evidence.
This role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Control Systems Engineer to develop and validate the control approaches that enable stable, accurate performance of our sensing systems. The role will connect modeling and simulation with hardware integration, test, and real-world system behavior.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Develop models and control algorithms for relevant payload, pointing, stabilization, or subsystem functions.\n\n - Translate performance requirements into control architectures, interfaces, and verification plans.\n\n - Use simulation and test data to evaluate stability, robustness, and expected system performance.\n\n - Support software, firmware, electronics, mechanical, and systems teams during integration and troubleshooting.\n\n - Plan and execute model-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, and system-level validation as appropriate.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Strong foundation in dynamics, feedback control, estimation, and system modeling.\n\n - Experience developing, simulating, and validating controls for a physical system.\n\n - Ability to work across analytical models, software implementation, hardware interfaces, and test data.\n\n - Clear technical communication and disciplined documentation of assumptions and performance results.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with aerospace, robotics, precision pointing, optical systems, or other tightly controlled hardware.\n\n - Experience with real-time systems and hardware-in-the-loop testing.\n\n - Familiarity with sensor fusion, calibration, or estimation under uncertain operating conditions.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Control performance is modeled, tested, and understood against clear system requirements.\n\n - Algorithms transition cleanly from simulation into integrated hardware and software.\n\n - The team can diagnose performance limits and make informed design tradeoffs using validated evidence.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"0b5c2af2-4c65-4b5d-8194-29a5bd0010e9","title":"Mechanical Designer - Airborne","department":"Hardware Engineering","team":"Hardware Engineering","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"El Segundo","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-15T02:10:33.841+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"El Segundo"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/0b5c2af2-4c65-4b5d-8194-29a5bd0010e9","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/0b5c2af2-4c65-4b5d-8194-29a5bd0010e9/application","descriptionHtml":"Welcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Mechanical Designer focused on airborne payload hardware. This role will turn engineering concepts into detailed, manufacturable designs and support hardware from early packaging through fabrication, assembly, integration, and flight testing.
Create and maintain detailed 3D CAD mechanical designs, assemblies, drawings, and bills of material for airborne optomechanical and optoelectrical payload hardware, including lens housings, fixtures, mounts, and alignment mechanisms.
Translate system, optical, electrical, thermal, and structural constraints into practical packaging solutions. Perform tolerance and basic thermal and structural analyses, select materials, and ensure mechanical designs meet performance and reliability requirements.
Work with optical engineers to translate system-level optical requirements into mechanical designs, then collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, and suppliers to optimize designs for manufacturability and cost.
Support prototype builds, fit checks, integration, metrology, test-fixture development, and hardware troubleshooting.
Maintain configuration discipline and incorporate lessons from fabrication, test, and flight operations into design updates.
Typically requires a degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics and at least five years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and at least three years of experience.
Strong proficiency with NX or an equivalent CAD tool and a deep understanding of precision mechanical design, ASME Y14.5-2018 GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, materials, and manufacturing processes.
Experience designing optical-system components such as lenses, lasers, sensors, and imaging assemblies; ability to collaborate with optical, electrical, structural, thermal, and systems engineers; and ability to communicate technical results to internal and external technical and nontechnical audiences.
Hands-on experience with prototyping, metrology, testing, and verification of optomechanical assemblies for harsh environments, including thermal management, material selection, adhesives, and mounting techniques.
Experience with airborne, spaceborne, aerospace, precision-instrument, robotics, or other ruggedized and mass- and volume-constrained hardware, including work in regulated aerospace or defense environments.
Experience packaging optical and electronic components with tight alignment or environmental requirements; familiarity with cleanroom practices and optical assembly techniques.
Familiarity with rapid prototyping and low-volume production environments, hand and light power tools, and finite-element analysis for modal, shock, and random-vibration loads; Ansys Workbench experience is a plus.
Designs are complete, manufacturable, and released on time with clear configuration control.
Hardware assembles and integrates as intended with minimal avoidable rework.
Design updates incorporate evidence from build, test, and flight operations quickly and accurately.
This role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Mechanical Designer focused on airborne payload hardware. This role will turn engineering concepts into detailed, manufacturable designs and support hardware from early packaging through fabrication, assembly, integration, and flight testing.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Create and maintain detailed 3D CAD mechanical designs, assemblies, drawings, and bills of material for airborne optomechanical and optoelectrical payload hardware, including lens housings, fixtures, mounts, and alignment mechanisms.\n\n - Translate system, optical, electrical, thermal, and structural constraints into practical packaging solutions. Perform tolerance and basic thermal and structural analyses, select materials, and ensure mechanical designs meet performance and reliability requirements.\n\n - Work with optical engineers to translate system-level optical requirements into mechanical designs, then collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, and suppliers to optimize designs for manufacturability and cost.\n\n - Support prototype builds, fit checks, integration, metrology, test-fixture development, and hardware troubleshooting.\n\n - Maintain configuration discipline and incorporate lessons from fabrication, test, and flight operations into design updates.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Typically requires a degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics and at least five years of relevant experience, or an advanced degree in a related field and at least three years of experience.\n\n - Strong proficiency with NX or an equivalent CAD tool and a deep understanding of precision mechanical design, ASME Y14.5-2018 GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, materials, and manufacturing processes.\n\n - Experience designing optical-system components such as lenses, lasers, sensors, and imaging assemblies; ability to collaborate with optical, electrical, structural, thermal, and systems engineers; and ability to communicate technical results to internal and external technical and nontechnical audiences.\n\n - Hands-on experience with prototyping, metrology, testing, and verification of optomechanical assemblies for harsh environments, including thermal management, material selection, adhesives, and mounting techniques.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with airborne, spaceborne, aerospace, precision-instrument, robotics, or other ruggedized and mass- and volume-constrained hardware, including work in regulated aerospace or defense environments.\n\n - Experience packaging optical and electronic components with tight alignment or environmental requirements; familiarity with cleanroom practices and optical assembly techniques.\n\n - Familiarity with rapid prototyping and low-volume production environments, hand and light power tools, and finite-element analysis for modal, shock, and random-vibration loads; Ansys Workbench experience is a plus.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Designs are complete, manufacturable, and released on time with clear configuration control.\n\n - Hardware assembles and integrates as intended with minimal avoidable rework.\n\n - Design updates incorporate evidence from build, test, and flight operations quickly and accurately.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring an Electrical Architect to define and own the electrical architecture for advanced sensing payloads and supporting airborne and spaceborne systems. Reporting to Victor Moreno, this role will guide interfaces, power, signal integrity, design decisions, and technical reviews across the payload electronics stack.
Define the end-to-end electrical architecture and maintain clear interfaces across payload subsystems.
Lead trade studies and design decisions involving power distribution, signal integrity, data paths, grounding, and reliability.
Establish design requirements, budgets, review criteria, and verification approaches with systems and engineering teams.
Provide technical guidance through schematic design, board development, bring-up, integration, and test.
Identify cross-system risks early and drive them to clear owners, decisions, and evidence-based closure.
Experience architecting complex electrical systems that combine multiple boards, sensors, processors, power domains, and interfaces.
Strong fundamentals in electronics, power, high-speed or sensitive signal paths, grounding, and hardware integration.
Ability to lead technical reviews and communicate architectural tradeoffs across disciplines.
Hands-on judgment informed by hardware development, bring-up, test, and failure investigation.
Experience with aerospace, defense, imaging, sensing, avionics, or other high-reliability hardware.
Experience designing for constrained power, mass, thermal, electromagnetic, or environmental conditions.
Familiarity with qualification, production transition, supplier coordination, and configuration control.
The payload has a coherent, documented electrical architecture with clear interfaces and margins.
Cross-board and cross-subsystem risks are resolved before they become integration failures.
Design reviews and verification evidence support confident progression into system test and flight readiness.
This role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring an Electrical Architect to define and own the electrical architecture for advanced sensing payloads and supporting airborne and spaceborne systems. Reporting to Victor Moreno, this role will guide interfaces, power, signal integrity, design decisions, and technical reviews across the payload electronics stack.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Define the end-to-end electrical architecture and maintain clear interfaces across payload subsystems.\n\n - Lead trade studies and design decisions involving power distribution, signal integrity, data paths, grounding, and reliability.\n\n - Establish design requirements, budgets, review criteria, and verification approaches with systems and engineering teams.\n\n - Provide technical guidance through schematic design, board development, bring-up, integration, and test.\n\n - Identify cross-system risks early and drive them to clear owners, decisions, and evidence-based closure.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Experience architecting complex electrical systems that combine multiple boards, sensors, processors, power domains, and interfaces.\n\n - Strong fundamentals in electronics, power, high-speed or sensitive signal paths, grounding, and hardware integration.\n\n - Ability to lead technical reviews and communicate architectural tradeoffs across disciplines.\n\n - Hands-on judgment informed by hardware development, bring-up, test, and failure investigation.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with aerospace, defense, imaging, sensing, avionics, or other high-reliability hardware.\n\n - Experience designing for constrained power, mass, thermal, electromagnetic, or environmental conditions.\n\n - Familiarity with qualification, production transition, supplier coordination, and configuration control.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - The payload has a coherent, documented electrical architecture with clear interfaces and margins.\n\n - Cross-board and cross-subsystem risks are resolved before they become integration failures.\n\n - Design reviews and verification evidence support confident progression into system test and flight readiness.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Head of Talent and Hiring to build a rigorous, candidate-centered recruiting and people operations function for a fast-growing technical team. This leader will partner with executives and hiring managers to translate the hiring plan into consistently excellent execution.
Own recruiting strategy and execution across technical, operational, and leadership roles.
Partner with hiring managers to define roles, build interview plans, calibrate evaluation, and maintain decision quality.
Create a reliable operating cadence for sourcing, pipeline management, candidate communication, and hiring metrics.
Strengthen candidate experience, employer narrative, offer processes, onboarding handoffs, and recruiting systems.
Build scalable people processes while keeping the function practical for an early-stage company.
Experience leading recruiting or talent acquisition for high-growth, technically demanding teams.
Track record partnering closely with executives and hiring managers on role definition and hiring decisions.
Strong operational discipline across recruiting systems, processes, metrics, and candidate communication.
Sound judgment, discretion, and the ability to balance speed with a high quality bar.
Experience hiring across aerospace, hardware, software, AI, defense, or scientific disciplines.
Experience building recruiting operations and people processes at an early-stage company.
Experience developing employer branding, sourcing programs, and structured interviewing practices.
Priority roles have clear profiles, accountable hiring teams, and healthy pipelines.
Candidates receive timely, consistent communication and a strong view of Matter's mission and standards.
Hiring managers use repeatable processes and evidence to make faster, better-calibrated decisions.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Head of Talent and Hiring to build a rigorous, candidate-centered recruiting and people operations function for a fast-growing technical team. This leader will partner with executives and hiring managers to translate the hiring plan into consistently excellent execution.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Own recruiting strategy and execution across technical, operational, and leadership roles.\n\n - Partner with hiring managers to define roles, build interview plans, calibrate evaluation, and maintain decision quality.\n\n - Create a reliable operating cadence for sourcing, pipeline management, candidate communication, and hiring metrics.\n\n - Strengthen candidate experience, employer narrative, offer processes, onboarding handoffs, and recruiting systems.\n\n - Build scalable people processes while keeping the function practical for an early-stage company.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Experience leading recruiting or talent acquisition for high-growth, technically demanding teams.\n\n - Track record partnering closely with executives and hiring managers on role definition and hiring decisions.\n\n - Strong operational discipline across recruiting systems, processes, metrics, and candidate communication.\n\n - Sound judgment, discretion, and the ability to balance speed with a high quality bar.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience hiring across aerospace, hardware, software, AI, defense, or scientific disciplines.\n\n - Experience building recruiting operations and people processes at an early-stage company.\n\n - Experience developing employer branding, sourcing programs, and structured interviewing practices.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Priority roles have clear profiles, accountable hiring teams, and healthy pipelines.\n\n - Candidates receive timely, consistent communication and a strong view of Matter's mission and standards.\n\n - Hiring managers use repeatable processes and evidence to make faster, better-calibrated decisions.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"c77ca8da-7b41-4330-83a8-9859fcc699dc","title":"Head of IT and Security","department":"Operations","team":"Operations","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-15T02:10:04.631+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/c77ca8da-7b41-4330-83a8-9859fcc699dc","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/c77ca8da-7b41-4330-83a8-9859fcc699dc/application","descriptionHtml":"Welcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Head of IT and Security to build and operate the systems, controls, and support that keep the company productive and secure. This leader will own practical IT operations and cybersecurity as Matter scales its team, facilities, technical environments, and customer and government programs.
Own enterprise IT operations, including identity and access, endpoints, networks, collaboration systems, vendors, and employee support.
Build a risk-based security program spanning policies, technical controls, monitoring, incident response, and employee practices.
Partner with engineering and operations teams to secure cloud, laboratory, facility, and program environments without blocking execution.
Lead compliance readiness and evidence management for applicable customer, government, and company requirements.
Develop a scalable operating model for service reliability, asset lifecycle, access reviews, vendor management, and security response.
Experience leading both IT operations and cybersecurity in a growing organization.
Strong working knowledge of identity, endpoint, network, cloud, vendor, and incident-response practices.
Ability to translate risk and compliance requirements into practical controls and accountable operations.
Clear communication, sound judgment, discretion, and a service-oriented approach to supporting employees.
Experience in aerospace, defense, regulated technology, or environments handling export-controlled or sensitive information.
Experience preparing for security or compliance assessments and maintaining auditable evidence.
Experience building an IT and security function at an early-stage or rapidly scaling company.
Employees have reliable, well-supported access to the systems they need while unnecessary access and unmanaged assets decline.
Security risks, incidents, and compliance obligations are visible, prioritized, and handled through repeatable processes.
IT and security scale with company growth without becoming a recurring blocker for technical or customer programs.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Head of IT and Security to build and operate the systems, controls, and support that keep the company productive and secure. This leader will own practical IT operations and cybersecurity as Matter scales its team, facilities, technical environments, and customer and government programs.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Own enterprise IT operations, including identity and access, endpoints, networks, collaboration systems, vendors, and employee support.\n\n - Build a risk-based security program spanning policies, technical controls, monitoring, incident response, and employee practices.\n\n - Partner with engineering and operations teams to secure cloud, laboratory, facility, and program environments without blocking execution.\n\n - Lead compliance readiness and evidence management for applicable customer, government, and company requirements.\n\n - Develop a scalable operating model for service reliability, asset lifecycle, access reviews, vendor management, and security response.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Experience leading both IT operations and cybersecurity in a growing organization.\n\n - Strong working knowledge of identity, endpoint, network, cloud, vendor, and incident-response practices.\n\n - Ability to translate risk and compliance requirements into practical controls and accountable operations.\n\n - Clear communication, sound judgment, discretion, and a service-oriented approach to supporting employees.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience in aerospace, defense, regulated technology, or environments handling export-controlled or sensitive information.\n\n - Experience preparing for security or compliance assessments and maintaining auditable evidence.\n\n - Experience building an IT and security function at an early-stage or rapidly scaling company.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Employees have reliable, well-supported access to the systems they need while unnecessary access and unmanaged assets decline.\n\n - Security risks, incidents, and compliance obligations are visible, prioritized, and handled through repeatable processes.\n\n - IT and security scale with company growth without becoming a recurring blocker for technical or customer programs.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Flight Firmware Engineer to develop the low-level software that connects our sensing hardware to reliable airborne and spaceborne operations. This role will work closely with payload electronics, flight software, systems, test, and operations through board bring-up, integration, qualification, and flight.
Develop and maintain embedded firmware, device drivers, and hardware-control interfaces for sensing payload electronics.
Support board bring-up, peripheral integration, command and telemetry paths, timing, and fault handling.
Translate system and hardware requirements into testable firmware behavior and clear interfaces with flight software.
Build unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop tests and support environmental and flight qualification activities.
Diagnose issues using logs, instrumentation, and test data; document root causes and implement reliable corrective actions.
Experience developing and debugging embedded software close to hardware.
Strong understanding of processors, peripherals, communication interfaces, timing, memory, and real-time behavior.
Hands-on experience with board bring-up, laboratory debugging, automated testing, and version-controlled software development.
Ability to work across firmware, electronics, flight software, systems engineering, and test disciplines.
Experience with aerospace, avionics, robotics, sensing, or other mission-critical embedded systems.
Experience with real-time operating environments, programmable logic interfaces, or high-throughput sensor data paths.
Familiarity with environmental qualification, fault-tolerant design, and flight anomaly response.
Firmware provides stable, observable control of payload hardware through integration and qualification.
Interfaces with electronics and flight software are documented, tested, and resilient to expected faults.
Hardware issues are diagnosed quickly and firmware releases are traceable and ready for flight operations.
This role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Flight Firmware Engineer to develop the low-level software that connects our sensing hardware to reliable airborne and spaceborne operations. This role will work closely with payload electronics, flight software, systems, test, and operations through board bring-up, integration, qualification, and flight.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Develop and maintain embedded firmware, device drivers, and hardware-control interfaces for sensing payload electronics.\n\n - Support board bring-up, peripheral integration, command and telemetry paths, timing, and fault handling.\n\n - Translate system and hardware requirements into testable firmware behavior and clear interfaces with flight software.\n\n - Build unit, integration, and hardware-in-the-loop tests and support environmental and flight qualification activities.\n\n - Diagnose issues using logs, instrumentation, and test data; document root causes and implement reliable corrective actions.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Experience developing and debugging embedded software close to hardware.\n\n - Strong understanding of processors, peripherals, communication interfaces, timing, memory, and real-time behavior.\n\n - Hands-on experience with board bring-up, laboratory debugging, automated testing, and version-controlled software development.\n\n - Ability to work across firmware, electronics, flight software, systems engineering, and test disciplines.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with aerospace, avionics, robotics, sensing, or other mission-critical embedded systems.\n\n - Experience with real-time operating environments, programmable logic interfaces, or high-throughput sensor data paths.\n\n - Familiarity with environmental qualification, fault-tolerant design, and flight anomaly response.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Firmware provides stable, observable control of payload hardware through integration and qualification.\n\n - Interfaces with electronics and flight software are documented, tested, and resilient to expected faults.\n\n - Hardware issues are diagnosed quickly and firmware releases are traceable and ready for flight operations.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"4384f0d1-cf64-46ae-b000-a37ddf1d1973","title":"Product Designer","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-15T02:11:05.362+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/4384f0d1-cf64-46ae-b000-a37ddf1d1973","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/4384f0d1-cf64-46ae-b000-a37ddf1d1973/application","descriptionHtml":"Welcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Product Designer to make complex physical-world intelligence clear, useful, and actionable for customers. Working with the Product Intelligence team and Ignacio Cases Martin, this role will shape workflows, interfaces, prototypes, and design systems for products that turn high-dimensional sensing data into operational decisions.
Lead user research and workflow discovery with customers, product leaders, engineers, and domain experts.
Translate complex data and analytical capabilities into clear information architecture, interactions, and interfaces.
Create prototypes and test concepts early enough to guide product and engineering decisions.
Partner closely with product and engineering through implementation, iteration, and quality review.
Build and maintain reusable design patterns and a coherent design system as the product surface expands.
Experience designing data-rich software products or complex professional workflows.
Strong interaction, interface, information-architecture, prototyping, and visual-design skills.
Ability to turn ambiguous customer problems and technical constraints into simple, testable product concepts.
Clear communication and a collaborative approach to working with product, engineering, and customer-facing teams.
Experience with geospatial, industrial, scientific, analytical, AI-assisted, or operational decision products.
Experience designing for expert users who work with maps, imagery, time series, alerts, or complex datasets.
Experience contributing to or establishing a design system in an early-stage product organization.
Customers can understand and act on Matter's intelligence without unnecessary complexity.
Product concepts are validated early and move into implementation with clear interaction and visual specifications.
The product develops a coherent set of patterns that improves speed and consistency across new workflows.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Product Designer to make complex physical-world intelligence clear, useful, and actionable for customers. Working with the Product Intelligence team and Ignacio Cases Martin, this role will shape workflows, interfaces, prototypes, and design systems for products that turn high-dimensional sensing data into operational decisions.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Lead user research and workflow discovery with customers, product leaders, engineers, and domain experts.\n\n - Translate complex data and analytical capabilities into clear information architecture, interactions, and interfaces.\n\n - Create prototypes and test concepts early enough to guide product and engineering decisions.\n\n - Partner closely with product and engineering through implementation, iteration, and quality review.\n\n - Build and maintain reusable design patterns and a coherent design system as the product surface expands.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Experience designing data-rich software products or complex professional workflows.\n\n - Strong interaction, interface, information-architecture, prototyping, and visual-design skills.\n\n - Ability to turn ambiguous customer problems and technical constraints into simple, testable product concepts.\n\n - Clear communication and a collaborative approach to working with product, engineering, and customer-facing teams.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with geospatial, industrial, scientific, analytical, AI-assisted, or operational decision products.\n\n - Experience designing for expert users who work with maps, imagery, time series, alerts, or complex datasets.\n\n - Experience contributing to or establishing a design system in an early-stage product organization.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Customers can understand and act on Matter's intelligence without unnecessary complexity.\n\n - Product concepts are validated early and move into implementation with clear interaction and visual specifications.\n\n - The product develops a coherent set of patterns that improves speed and consistency across new workflows.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer to build the software that turns ultraspectral sensing data and AI models into intelligence products customers use to make operational decisions. This role will own work across web interfaces, backend services, APIs, and geospatial data workflows, partnering with product, design, AI, and data infrastructure from early prototypes through production deployments.
Design, build, and maintain end-to-end product workflows across modern web interfaces, backend services, APIs, and data integrations.
Turn high-dimensional sensing data, geospatial context, and model outputs into clear, responsive applications for expert users.
Build backend services that support secure, reliable access to imagery, maps, analytical results, and customer-specific workflows.
Define and maintain interfaces between the product layer, data infrastructure, AI systems, and external customer systems.
Own software quality through automated testing, observability, performance tuning, CI/CD, documentation, and production support.
Work with product leaders, designers, engineers, and users to scope features, make tradeoffs, and deliver complete capabilities from problem definition through deployment.
3+ years of experience building and operating full-stack software products or equivalent production systems.
Strong frontend development skills with JavaScript or TypeScript, React, and modern web application patterns.
Experience building backend APIs and services with Python and frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask.
Experience deploying and operating cloud services in AWS, including containerized or serverless workloads, queues, and relational databases such as Postgres.
Experience working with geospatial data, spatial databases, or processing tools such as PostGIS, GDAL, cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs, or NetCDF.
Strong software design, testing, debugging, and communication skills, with the ability to own work across technical boundaries.
Experience with Mapbox, TiTiler, tile servers, or other geospatial visualization and delivery systems.
Experience integrating AI or machine-learning outputs, including language-model capabilities, into production software.
Familiarity with remote sensing, spectral imagery, or industrial and scientific data workflows.
Experience delivering customer-facing products in an early-stage company or other fast-moving technical environment.
Users can move from complex sensing data and model outputs to clear workflows that support operational decisions.
Product interfaces and backend services remain performant, observable, and reliable as deployments move from pilots into production.
Shared interfaces, components, tests, and documentation reduce integration work and help the team ship new capabilities faster.
This role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer to build the software that turns ultraspectral sensing data and AI models into intelligence products customers use to make operational decisions. This role will own work across web interfaces, backend services, APIs, and geospatial data workflows, partnering with product, design, AI, and data infrastructure from early prototypes through production deployments.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Design, build, and maintain end-to-end product workflows across modern web interfaces, backend services, APIs, and data integrations.\n\n - Turn high-dimensional sensing data, geospatial context, and model outputs into clear, responsive applications for expert users.\n\n - Build backend services that support secure, reliable access to imagery, maps, analytical results, and customer-specific workflows.\n\n - Define and maintain interfaces between the product layer, data infrastructure, AI systems, and external customer systems.\n\n - Own software quality through automated testing, observability, performance tuning, CI/CD, documentation, and production support.\n\n - Work with product leaders, designers, engineers, and users to scope features, make tradeoffs, and deliver complete capabilities from problem definition through deployment.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - 3+ years of experience building and operating full-stack software products or equivalent production systems.\n\n - Strong frontend development skills with JavaScript or TypeScript, React, and modern web application patterns.\n\n - Experience building backend APIs and services with Python and frameworks such as FastAPI or Flask.\n\n - Experience deploying and operating cloud services in AWS, including containerized or serverless workloads, queues, and relational databases such as Postgres.\n\n - Experience working with geospatial data, spatial databases, or processing tools such as PostGIS, GDAL, cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs, or NetCDF.\n\n - Strong software design, testing, debugging, and communication skills, with the ability to own work across technical boundaries.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with Mapbox, TiTiler, tile servers, or other geospatial visualization and delivery systems.\n\n - Experience integrating AI or machine-learning outputs, including language-model capabilities, into production software.\n\n - Familiarity with remote sensing, spectral imagery, or industrial and scientific data workflows.\n\n - Experience delivering customer-facing products in an early-stage company or other fast-moving technical environment.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Users can move from complex sensing data and model outputs to clear workflows that support operational decisions.\n\n - Product interfaces and backend services remain performant, observable, and reliable as deployments move from pilots into production.\n\n - Shared interfaces, components, tests, and documentation reduce integration work and help the team ship new capabilities faster.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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This system doesn’t just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
We are seeking an early career Systems Engineer to support the architecture, design, verification, validation, and I&T of air-borne and space-borne remote-sensing systems. This role is intended for an early-career engineer who wants broad, hands-on exposure to real hardware and software that flies while developing strong systems engineering judgment.
Working closely with systems engineers, subject matter experts, and subsystem leads, you will help translate mission needs into system architecture, technical requirements, allocations, budgets, internal and external interfaces, trades, and technical risks. You will also help define the verification and validation strategy, support requirements closure, perform system analyses, support integration and test, investigate anomalies, and contribute to mission operations.
This is not a requirements-management role. This is true systems engineering, an opportunity to develop an end-to-end technical understanding and learn what it takes to maintain the technical integrity of a complex system. The role emphasizes learning by doing, with increasing responsibility and ownership as you demonstrate sound technical judgment and reliable execution.
Requirements, Architecture, and System Analysis
Shape mission objectives, science needs, and concepts of operation into coherent system architectures and clear, achievable, and verifiable requirements.
Connect the dots across requirements, functions, interfaces, operating scenarios, assumptions, rationale, and verification maintaining traceability from mission intent through test.
Help establish and evolve the system technical baseline as the architecture matures and new information emerges.
Dig into challenging engineering problems using first-principles analysis, modeling, heritage, test data, and thoughtful treatment of uncertainty while gaining hands-on experience with space and airborne payloads.
Evaluate design changes across the full system, identifying downstream impacts to requirements, interfaces, operations, performance, and verification.
Interfaces, Integration, and Verification
Work across optics, electrical, mechanical, thermal, avionics, software, mission operations, and AI&T to define, document, and verify internal and external interfaces.
Support interface-control working groups and maintain interface requirements, agreements, open items, and verification evidence.
Help develop the system verification and validation approach, including verification methods, success criteria, events, configurations, and required evidence.
Support integration planning, test readiness reviews, procedure development, test execution, data review, anomaly resolution, and requirements closure.
Participate directly in hardware bring-up, functional checkout, environmental and performance testing, airborne campaigns, and flight-like operations.
Investigate anomalies by organizing evidence, reproducing failures where practical, evaluating root-cause hypotheses, and tracking corrective actions through closure.
Evaluate test results and operational behavior in the context of the end-to-end system—not solely against individual pass/fail criteria.
Technical Leadership and Growth
Prepare clear, concise technical products for working meetings, peer reviews, design reviews, test-readiness reviews, and decision forums.
Communicate technical status, assumptions, margins, uncertainties, risks, liens, and recommended actions clearly.
Ask effective questions, seek technical review at appropriate decision points, and incorporate feedback into stronger engineering products.
Work closely with subsystem cognizant engineers while maintaining awareness of cross-subsystem interactions and end-to-end system behavior.
Take increasing technical ownership of an assigned function, interface, analysis, budget, or verification area as experience and judgment grow.
Required
B.S. in aerospace, electrical, mechanical, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Typically 1–5 years of relevant experience; graduate research, capstone programs, student flight projects, laboratory work, and early professional experience count.
Strong analytical fundamentals and the ability to break an ambiguous technical problem into assumptions, first principles, and next steps.
Exposure to requirements, interfaces, trade studies, integration, test, verification, or configuration-controlled technical work.
Experience with Python, MATLAB, or similar tools for engineering analysis and data visualization.
Clear written and verbal communication, intellectual honesty about uncertainty, careful documentation, and a strong ownership mindset.
Willingness to work hands-on with hardware and software, support onsite I&T, operations as needed.
Preferred
Hands-on experience with testing, prototyping, flight hardware, flight software, student spacecraft/unmanned aerial systems teams, or integrated EO/IR systems.
Familiarity with requirements, verification validation, and integration and test
Coursework or experience in systems engineering, orbital mechanics, optics, remote sensing, avionics, thermal systems, mechanical, or software
Experience in a fast-paced, multidisciplinary, startup, research, aerospace, or mission-operations environment.
What Success Looks Like
Within 30 days, you can navigate the system architecture, technical baseline, key requirements and interfaces, test environments, and team decision paths.
Within 60 days, you have delivered a reviewed technical product—such as an analysis, trade study, requirement or interface update, resource budget, or verification product—and supported an integration or test activity from planning through data review.
Within 90 days, the team trusts you to take technical ownership of a scoped function, interface, resource budget, analysis, or verification area, with appropriate guidance and senior review.
This role is based in El Segundo, CA. Onsite work is required, with field deployments and test campaigns as needed.
Due to the nature of the work, candidates must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or otherwise eligible for authorization under U.S. export control laws, including ITAR and EAR requirements.
Welcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring an Agent Infrastructure Engineer to build the production systems that turn physics-informed and general-purpose AI into secure, evidence-backed intelligence and action. Reporting to Ignacio Cases Martin, this hands-on individual contributor will work across agent runtimes, reasoning graphs, model routing, retrieval, memory, tools, durable execution, and human approval in partnership with research, platform, product, design, and evaluation teams.
Build and operate a production agent runtime that composes physics-informed models, LLMs, VLMs, world models, scientific code, data services, and deterministic business rules through stable interfaces.
Design durable execution with state, planning, tool selection, retries, timeouts, cancellation, checkpoints, provenance, human approval, and recovery.
Build retrieval, RAG, memory, and indexing patterns that respect tenancy, permissions, freshness, versioning, retention, and evidence lineage.
Create evidence-first outputs that distinguish source data, model inference, system-generated synthesis, user input, and unresolved uncertainty.
Integrate continuous evaluation across task success, groundedness, scientific validity, safety, latency, cost, and human intervention.
Partner with product, design, AI platform, Signal and Evaluation, and Telemetry teams to create reusable APIs, tools, and human-in-the-loop workflows without one-off orchestration.
Experience building production agent infrastructure, applied-AI platforms, workflow engines, distributed systems, or complex AI products.
Strong hands-on software engineering skills across architecture, APIs, stateful services, databases, asynchronous execution, testing, debugging, and production operations.
Practical experience with LLMs, VLMs, multimodal systems, RAG, memory, tool use, model routing, structured generation, and common agent failure modes.
Experience building systems with security, permissions, data isolation, auditability, and human approval requirements.
Sound product judgment and the ability to explain uncertain system behavior precisely across technical and non-technical teams.
Experience with scientific, geospatial, industrial, defense, autonomy, or other high-consequence customer-intelligence systems.
Experience building multimodal applications that combine imagery, time series, maps, documents, structured data, or sensor streams.
Experience with agent evaluation, reinforcement learning or world-model environments, model routing, constrained decoding, or durable workflow systems.
Familiarity with edge or intermittently connected operation, local model execution, or mixed cloud and edge architectures.
Production agents generate useful outputs with clear evidence, provenance, uncertainty, and human authority boundaries.
Long-running workflows recover predictably from unavailable models, tools, data, or network connectivity.
Reusable APIs, SDKs, tools, and graph components let teams create new agents without one-off orchestration.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring an Agent Infrastructure Engineer to build the production systems that turn physics-informed and general-purpose AI into secure, evidence-backed intelligence and action. Reporting to Ignacio Cases Martin, this hands-on individual contributor will work across agent runtimes, reasoning graphs, model routing, retrieval, memory, tools, durable execution, and human approval in partnership with research, platform, product, design, and evaluation teams.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Build and operate a production agent runtime that composes physics-informed models, LLMs, VLMs, world models, scientific code, data services, and deterministic business rules through stable interfaces.\n\n - Design durable execution with state, planning, tool selection, retries, timeouts, cancellation, checkpoints, provenance, human approval, and recovery.\n\n - Build retrieval, RAG, memory, and indexing patterns that respect tenancy, permissions, freshness, versioning, retention, and evidence lineage.\n\n - Create evidence-first outputs that distinguish source data, model inference, system-generated synthesis, user input, and unresolved uncertainty.\n\n - Integrate continuous evaluation across task success, groundedness, scientific validity, safety, latency, cost, and human intervention.\n\n - Partner with product, design, AI platform, Signal and Evaluation, and Telemetry teams to create reusable APIs, tools, and human-in-the-loop workflows without one-off orchestration.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Experience building production agent infrastructure, applied-AI platforms, workflow engines, distributed systems, or complex AI products.\n\n - Strong hands-on software engineering skills across architecture, APIs, stateful services, databases, asynchronous execution, testing, debugging, and production operations.\n\n - Practical experience with LLMs, VLMs, multimodal systems, RAG, memory, tool use, model routing, structured generation, and common agent failure modes.\n\n - Experience building systems with security, permissions, data isolation, auditability, and human approval requirements.\n\n - Sound product judgment and the ability to explain uncertain system behavior precisely across technical and non-technical teams.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with scientific, geospatial, industrial, defense, autonomy, or other high-consequence customer-intelligence systems.\n\n - Experience building multimodal applications that combine imagery, time series, maps, documents, structured data, or sensor streams.\n\n - Experience with agent evaluation, reinforcement learning or world-model environments, model routing, constrained decoding, or durable workflow systems.\n\n - Familiarity with edge or intermittently connected operation, local model execution, or mixed cloud and edge architectures.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Production agents generate useful outputs with clear evidence, provenance, uncertainty, and human authority boundaries.\n\n - Long-running workflows recover predictably from unavailable models, tools, data, or network connectivity.\n\n - Reusable APIs, SDKs, tools, and graph components let teams create new agents without one-off orchestration.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. 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Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Product Intelligence Engineer to turn physics-informed models, general-purpose AI, and ultraspectral data into secure, evidence-backed intelligence products. Reporting to Ignacio Cases Martin, this hands-on individual contributor will build agentic workflows, retrieval and tool integrations, reports, and human-in-the-loop experiences that help customers make operational decisions.
Build production workflows that combine physics-informed models, LLMs, VLMs, world models, scientific code, data services, and deterministic rules through stable interfaces.
Design durable execution across state, planning, model routing, retrieval, memory, tool use, retries, timeouts, checkpoints, human approval, and recovery.
Create evidence-backed outputs that distinguish source data, model inference, system-generated synthesis, user input, and unresolved uncertainty.
Partner with product and design to build workflows for review, correction, comparison, approval, reporting, and recovery.
Build context, retrieval, memory, and indexing patterns that respect permissions, freshness, versioning, retention, and evidence lineage.
Evaluate real system behavior across task success, groundedness, scientific validity, safety, latency, cost, and human intervention.
Experience building production AI applications, agent systems, workflow engines, backend services, or complex software products.
Strong hands-on engineering skills across APIs, stateful services, databases, asynchronous execution, testing, debugging, and production operation.
Practical experience with LLMs or multimodal systems, retrieval, memory, tool use, model routing, structured generation, and common failure modes.
Product judgment and the ability to connect technical design choices to the user decision or workflow being improved.
Experience building systems with security, permissions, data isolation, auditability, or human-approval requirements.
Experience with scientific, geospatial, industrial, defense, autonomy, or other high-consequence intelligence systems.
Experience building multimodal applications that combine imagery, maps, time series, documents, structured data, or sensor streams.
Experience with agent evaluation, constrained generation, program synthesis, durable workflow systems, or mixed cloud and edge architectures.
Experience working closely with product and design teams to ship customer-facing capabilities.
Customers receive timely, evidence-backed answers and workflows that support real operational decisions.
Agentic capabilities behave predictably across failures, version changes, unavailable dependencies, and human-review boundaries.
Reusable product-intelligence components reduce one-off integration work without obscuring user control or scientific evidence.
This role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Product Intelligence Engineer to turn physics-informed models, general-purpose AI, and ultraspectral data into secure, evidence-backed intelligence products. 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This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Signal, Data, and Evaluation Engineer to build the datasets, benchmarks, environments, and evidence that make our models and AI systems scientifically defensible. Reporting to Ignacio Cases Martin, this individual contributor will work across data curation, simulation and learning environments, model and agent evaluation, and release-quality evidence.
Build versioned dataset workflows for collection, curation, filtering, labeling, ground truth, synthetic data, hard-negative mining, contamination controls, and train-evaluation isolation.
Design benchmark suites across perception, multimodal reasoning, physics-informed prediction, retrieval, planning, tool use, world modeling, and customer tasks.
Create simulation and environment infrastructure for reinforcement learning, imitation learning, offline learning, model-based learning, and agent training.
Define repeatable evaluation methods across accuracy, calibration, generalization, robustness, safety, latency, cost, and operational outcomes.
Turn field, mission, and customer failures into versioned datasets, benchmark cases, adversarial tests, and environment scenarios.
Build automated promotion gates and communicate clearly what has been tested, what remains unproven, and what evidence supports release.
Experience in ML evaluation, dataset engineering, reinforcement-learning environments, simulation, scientific ML, test infrastructure, or production AI systems.
Strong foundations in statistics, experimental design, benchmark validity, distribution shift, calibration, reward design, and evidence-based acceptance.
Fluency in Python and modern machine-learning frameworks, with the software engineering discipline to build tested modules, data contracts, or services.
Experience converting qualitative model or agent failures into reproducible datasets, tests, or environment scenarios.
Ability to reason across the complete data path and identify how acquisition, transformation, indexing, orchestration, and presentation affect correctness.
Experience with dataset curation, benchmark platforms, deep reinforcement learning, world models, synthetic data, multimodal evaluation, or scientific validation.
Experience with PyTorch or JAX, distributed evaluation, experiment tracking, environment frameworks, or model and agent observability.
Experience with uncertainty quantification, calibration, out-of-distribution detection, conformal methods, or selective prediction.
Experience evaluating models deployed to aircraft, satellites, robotics, industrial systems, or other constrained environments.
Model and agent releases are supported by reproducible datasets, benchmarks, and clearly stated evidence.
Failures from experiments and deployments become durable test cases that improve future systems.
Evaluation results preserve scientific meaning and make capability, uncertainty, and residual risk legible to the team.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Signal, Data, and Evaluation Engineer to build the datasets, benchmarks, environments, and evidence that make our models and AI systems scientifically defensible. Reporting to Ignacio Cases Martin, this individual contributor will work across data curation, simulation and learning environments, model and agent evaluation, and release-quality evidence.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Build versioned dataset workflows for collection, curation, filtering, labeling, ground truth, synthetic data, hard-negative mining, contamination controls, and train-evaluation isolation.\n\n - Design benchmark suites across perception, multimodal reasoning, physics-informed prediction, retrieval, planning, tool use, world modeling, and customer tasks.\n\n - Create simulation and environment infrastructure for reinforcement learning, imitation learning, offline learning, model-based learning, and agent training.\n\n - Define repeatable evaluation methods across accuracy, calibration, generalization, robustness, safety, latency, cost, and operational outcomes.\n\n - Turn field, mission, and customer failures into versioned datasets, benchmark cases, adversarial tests, and environment scenarios.\n\n - Build automated promotion gates and communicate clearly what has been tested, what remains unproven, and what evidence supports release.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Experience in ML evaluation, dataset engineering, reinforcement-learning environments, simulation, scientific ML, test infrastructure, or production AI systems.\n\n - Strong foundations in statistics, experimental design, benchmark validity, distribution shift, calibration, reward design, and evidence-based acceptance.\n\n - Fluency in Python and modern machine-learning frameworks, with the software engineering discipline to build tested modules, data contracts, or services.\n\n - Experience converting qualitative model or agent failures into reproducible datasets, tests, or environment scenarios.\n\n - Ability to reason across the complete data path and identify how acquisition, transformation, indexing, orchestration, and presentation affect correctness.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with dataset curation, benchmark platforms, deep reinforcement learning, world models, synthetic data, multimodal evaluation, or scientific validation.\n\n - Experience with PyTorch or JAX, distributed evaluation, experiment tracking, environment frameworks, or model and agent observability.\n\n - Experience with uncertainty quantification, calibration, out-of-distribution detection, conformal methods, or selective prediction.\n\n - Experience evaluating models deployed to aircraft, satellites, robotics, industrial systems, or other constrained environments.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Model and agent releases are supported by reproducible datasets, benchmarks, and clearly stated evidence.\n\n - Failures from experiments and deployments become durable test cases that improve future systems.\n\n - Evaluation results preserve scientific meaning and make capability, uncertainty, and residual risk legible to the team.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Telemetry and Observability Engineer to make datasets, training runs, models, environments, agents, and missions observable as one AI system. Reporting to Ignacio Cases Martin, this individual contributor will connect flight and mission reality with infrastructure, model, and product behavior through shared telemetry, traces, alerts, reliability mechanisms, and operational context.
Build a common telemetry model linking mission state, datasets, code, checkpoints, accelerators, model and prompt versions, environment episodes, agent steps, tools, decisions, cost, latency, and feedback.
Instrument distributed training, data loading, GPU utilization, checkpointing, experiment health, batch and online inference, and model-serving behavior.
Instrument agent workflows across prompts, context, retrieval, memory, planning, tool calls, graph state, human intervention, evidence, outcomes, and safety controls.
Connect planned-versus-actual mission state, hardware context, time, geometry, and geolocation to relevant datasets and model results.
Establish actionable service objectives, alerts, incident interfaces, rollout and rollback signals, and escalation paths across platform, model, environment, and agent failures.
Build capacity and cost visibility across storage, processing, accelerators, training, evaluation, inference, retrieval, and agent execution.
Experience with ML observability, telemetry, time-series systems, distributed training or inference, cloud infrastructure, or production AI platforms.
Strong hands-on engineering skills in observability, automation, APIs, infrastructure, incident tooling, and systems debugging.
Understanding of metrics, logs, traces, events, model and data monitoring, service objectives, capacity, release safety, and incident diagnosis.
Ability to reason about AI failure modes including bad datasets, training instability, stale checkpoints, drift, version mismatch, environment bugs, and agent-tool failure.
Experience designing telemetry schemas and correlation workflows across multiple systems, time domains, and ownership boundaries.
Experience with MLOps, GPU workloads, model serving, agent observability, reinforcement-learning environments, mission telemetry, or scientific instrumentation.
Experience operating high-throughput inference, streaming systems, geospatial pipelines, or mixed cloud and edge deployments.
Experience with reliability platforms or observability products used by multiple engineering teams.
Familiarity with aerospace, defense, regulated operations, or other settings requiring formal change control and incident evidence.
Teams can correlate mission, data, infrastructure, model, environment, and agent behavior during normal operation and incidents.
Alerts and service objectives identify actionable failures without obscuring scientific or operational context.
Capacity, cost, version, and reliability signals support safe deployments and faster diagnosis across the AI stack.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Telemetry and Observability Engineer to make datasets, training runs, models, environments, agents, and missions observable as one AI system. Reporting to Ignacio Cases Martin, this individual contributor will connect flight and mission reality with infrastructure, model, and product behavior through shared telemetry, traces, alerts, reliability mechanisms, and operational context.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Build a common telemetry model linking mission state, datasets, code, checkpoints, accelerators, model and prompt versions, environment episodes, agent steps, tools, decisions, cost, latency, and feedback.\n\n - Instrument distributed training, data loading, GPU utilization, checkpointing, experiment health, batch and online inference, and model-serving behavior.\n\n - Instrument agent workflows across prompts, context, retrieval, memory, planning, tool calls, graph state, human intervention, evidence, outcomes, and safety controls.\n\n - Connect planned-versus-actual mission state, hardware context, time, geometry, and geolocation to relevant datasets and model results.\n\n - Establish actionable service objectives, alerts, incident interfaces, rollout and rollback signals, and escalation paths across platform, model, environment, and agent failures.\n\n - Build capacity and cost visibility across storage, processing, accelerators, training, evaluation, inference, retrieval, and agent execution.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Experience with ML observability, telemetry, time-series systems, distributed training or inference, cloud infrastructure, or production AI platforms.\n\n - Strong hands-on engineering skills in observability, automation, APIs, infrastructure, incident tooling, and systems debugging.\n\n - Understanding of metrics, logs, traces, events, model and data monitoring, service objectives, capacity, release safety, and incident diagnosis.\n\n - Ability to reason about AI failure modes including bad datasets, training instability, stale checkpoints, drift, version mismatch, environment bugs, and agent-tool failure.\n\n - Experience designing telemetry schemas and correlation workflows across multiple systems, time domains, and ownership boundaries.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with MLOps, GPU workloads, model serving, agent observability, reinforcement-learning environments, mission telemetry, or scientific instrumentation.\n\n - Experience operating high-throughput inference, streaming systems, geospatial pipelines, or mixed cloud and edge deployments.\n\n - Experience with reliability platforms or observability products used by multiple engineering teams.\n\n - Familiarity with aerospace, defense, regulated operations, or other settings requiring formal change control and incident evidence.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Teams can correlate mission, data, infrastructure, model, environment, and agent behavior during normal operation and incidents.\n\n - Alerts and service objectives identify actionable failures without obscuring scientific or operational context.\n\n - Capacity, cost, version, and reliability signals support safe deployments and faster diagnosis across the AI stack.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Product Intelligence Engineer to turn physics-informed models, general-purpose AI, and ultraspectral data into secure, evidence-backed intelligence products. Reporting to Ignacio Cases Martin, this hands-on individual contributor will build agentic workflows, retrieval and tool integrations, reports, and human-in-the-loop experiences that help customers make operational decisions.
Build production workflows that combine physics-informed models, LLMs, VLMs, world models, scientific code, data services, and deterministic rules through stable interfaces.
Design durable execution across state, planning, model routing, retrieval, memory, tool use, retries, timeouts, checkpoints, human approval, and recovery.
Create evidence-backed outputs that distinguish source data, model inference, system-generated synthesis, user input, and unresolved uncertainty.
Partner with product and design to build workflows for review, correction, comparison, approval, reporting, and recovery.
Build context, retrieval, memory, and indexing patterns that respect permissions, freshness, versioning, retention, and evidence lineage.
Evaluate real system behavior across task success, groundedness, scientific validity, safety, latency, cost, and human intervention.
Experience building production AI applications, agent systems, workflow engines, backend services, or complex software products.
Strong hands-on engineering skills across APIs, stateful services, databases, asynchronous execution, testing, debugging, and production operation.
Practical experience with LLMs or multimodal systems, retrieval, memory, tool use, model routing, structured generation, and common failure modes.
Product judgment and the ability to connect technical design choices to the user decision or workflow being improved.
Experience building systems with security, permissions, data isolation, auditability, or human-approval requirements.
Experience with scientific, geospatial, industrial, defense, autonomy, or other high-consequence intelligence systems.
Experience building multimodal applications that combine imagery, maps, time series, documents, structured data, or sensor streams.
Experience with agent evaluation, constrained generation, program synthesis, durable workflow systems, or mixed cloud and edge architectures.
Experience working closely with product and design teams to ship customer-facing capabilities.
Customers receive timely, evidence-backed answers and workflows that support real operational decisions.
Agentic capabilities behave predictably across failures, version changes, unavailable dependencies, and human-review boundaries.
Reusable product-intelligence components reduce one-off integration work without obscuring user control or scientific evidence.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Product Intelligence Engineer to turn physics-informed models, general-purpose AI, and ultraspectral data into secure, evidence-backed intelligence products. Reporting to Ignacio Cases Martin, this hands-on individual contributor will build agentic workflows, retrieval and tool integrations, reports, and human-in-the-loop experiences that help customers make operational decisions.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Build production workflows that combine physics-informed models, LLMs, VLMs, world models, scientific code, data services, and deterministic rules through stable interfaces.\n\n - Design durable execution across state, planning, model routing, retrieval, memory, tool use, retries, timeouts, checkpoints, human approval, and recovery.\n\n - Create evidence-backed outputs that distinguish source data, model inference, system-generated synthesis, user input, and unresolved uncertainty.\n\n - Partner with product and design to build workflows for review, correction, comparison, approval, reporting, and recovery.\n\n - Build context, retrieval, memory, and indexing patterns that respect permissions, freshness, versioning, retention, and evidence lineage.\n\n - Evaluate real system behavior across task success, groundedness, scientific validity, safety, latency, cost, and human intervention.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Experience building production AI applications, agent systems, workflow engines, backend services, or complex software products.\n\n - Strong hands-on engineering skills across APIs, stateful services, databases, asynchronous execution, testing, debugging, and production operation.\n\n - Practical experience with LLMs or multimodal systems, retrieval, memory, tool use, model routing, structured generation, and common failure modes.\n\n - Product judgment and the ability to connect technical design choices to the user decision or workflow being improved.\n\n - Experience building systems with security, permissions, data isolation, auditability, or human-approval requirements.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with scientific, geospatial, industrial, defense, autonomy, or other high-consequence intelligence systems.\n\n - Experience building multimodal applications that combine imagery, maps, time series, documents, structured data, or sensor streams.\n\n - Experience with agent evaluation, constrained generation, program synthesis, durable workflow systems, or mixed cloud and edge architectures.\n\n - Experience working closely with product and design teams to ship customer-facing capabilities.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Customers receive timely, evidence-backed answers and workflows that support real operational decisions.\n\n - Agentic capabilities behave predictably across failures, version changes, unavailable dependencies, and human-review boundaries.\n\n - Reusable product-intelligence components reduce one-off integration work without obscuring user control or scientific evidence.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
We are seeking an Optomechanical Engineer to contribute to the design, analysis, integration, and qualification of high-performance optical payloads for space and airborne platforms. This role owns the optomechanical architecture and manufacturing readiness of Matter’s imaging systems from early concept through flight hardware.
You will champion optomechanical design across multiple programs, ensuring optical performance is preserved through structural, thermal, and dynamic environments (STOP). You will work closely with optical engineering, systems engineering, thermal, structures, and manufacturing partners, and will be hands-on with flight and test hardware.
Lead the optomechanical design of precision optical assemblies, subsystems, and payloads for space-qualified remote-sensing systems.
Define mechanical architectures for optical mounts, structures, mechanisms, and interfaces that preserve alignment and performance through launch and on-orbit conditions.
Translate optical sensitivities and requirements into mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing requirements; decompose system requirements into optical and mechanical requirements, generate error trees, budgets, and allocations across wavefront, spectral, and mechanical parameters, and derive component specifications, drawings, and statements of work.
Drive concept development, detailed design, and design maturity through all review gates.
Own optomechanical performance across Structural, Thermal, and Optical Performance (STOP) domains.
Perform and review tolerance analyses, GD&T, structural FEA, thermal and thermo-elastic analyses.
Collaborate with optical engineers to support optical modeling and error budgets using Zemax, Speos, MATLAB, or equivalent analysis tools.
Ensure designs meet stiffness, strength, thermal stability, and survivability requirements.
Define alignment strategies, optical test equipment, tooling, fixtures, procedures, and assembly and test plans for precision optical systems.
Lead optomechanical integration, bonding, assembly, and alignment of flight and test hardware, including hands-on work in cleanroom or contamination-controlled environments as required.
Support optical metrology, calibration, test, characterization, and performance verification, including verification of as-built optical designs and test configurations.
Support environmental testing including vibration, shock, and thermal-vacuum; drive anomaly resolution and root-cause analysis.
Design for manufacturability, assembly, and test (DFM/DFA) while maintaining optical performance.
Manage procurement of optical components and subsystems, vendor fabrication, inspection requirements, and technical vendor relationships.
Produce and maintain detailed CAD models, drawings, BOMs, and assembly/test procedures.
Support transition from prototype to low- and mid-rate production as needed.
Serve as the optomechanical technical lead for payload hardware.
Lead technical reviews and present designs to internal and external stakeholders.
Identify technical risks early and drive mitigation strategies.
Mentor junior engineers and help establish best practices in optomechanical design and integration.
Partner with program management to balance performance, schedule, and cost.
Optomechanical designs that meet performance requirements through launch and on-orbit environments.
Stable, repeatable optical alignment with well-understood tolerances and margins.
Hardware that integrates cleanly, tests efficiently, and qualifies without major rework.
Clear documentation and interfaces that enable fast iteration and scaling.
A team executing with rigor, ownership, and technical confidence.
Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline.
5+ years of experience in optomechanical design and development of precision optical systems.
Demonstrated experience owning optomechanical designs from requirements through integration and test.
Strong background in optical mounting, alignment, tolerancing, metrology, and materials, adhesives, and mounting approaches that preserve performance through varied thermal and vibration environments.
Proficiency with CAD tools (SolidWorks, Creo, or equivalent), GD&T, and FEA.
Hands-on experience with hardware integration, alignment, fabrication or assembly of optical hardware, environmental testing, and test and characterization of optical components and assemblies.
Experience producing high-quality technical documentation.
Strong communication skills and ability to lead cross-functional technical efforts.
Advanced degree in optics, physics, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field.
Experience with spaceflight or other high-reliability aerospace systems.
Experience with EO/IR, hyperspectral, laser, or precision imaging payloads.
Familiarity with Zemax or similar optical design tools.
Experience with fabrication of optics or coatings, adhesives, bonding, and contamination-controlled assembly.
Experience supporting NASA, DoD, SBIR, or commercial space programs.
Comfort operating in fast-paced startup or rapid-development environments.
This role is based in El Segundo, CA, with onsite presence required (temporary remote flexibility may be considered). Some travel may be required.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Compensation: Competitive total package based on experience.
Equity: Early-stage equity package so you share directly in Matter’s growth and success.
Health & Wellness: 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage.
Growth: Opportunities to expand into leadership, strategic accounts, or cross-functional roles as we scale.
You are a mission-driven technical leader who thrives at the intersection of engineering complexity, high-stakes decisions, and building real hardware that flies. You think holistically, communicate clearly, and elevate the entire engineering team around you.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nWe are seeking an Optomechanical Engineer to contribute to the design, analysis, integration, and qualification of high-performance optical payloads for space and airborne platforms. This role owns the optomechanical architecture and manufacturing readiness of Matter’s imaging systems from early concept through flight hardware.\n\nYou will champion optomechanical design across multiple programs, ensuring optical performance is preserved through structural, thermal, and dynamic environments (STOP). You will work closely with optical engineering, systems engineering, thermal, structures, and manufacturing partners, and will be hands-on with flight and test hardware.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n\nOPTOMECHANICAL ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN\n\n - Lead the optomechanical design of precision optical assemblies, subsystems, and payloads for space-qualified remote-sensing systems.\n\n - Define mechanical architectures for optical mounts, structures, mechanisms, and interfaces that preserve alignment and performance through launch and on-orbit conditions.\n\n - Translate optical sensitivities and requirements into mechanical, thermal, and manufacturing requirements; decompose system requirements into optical and mechanical requirements, generate error trees, budgets, and allocations across wavefront, spectral, and mechanical parameters, and derive component specifications, drawings, and statements of work.\n\n - Drive concept development, detailed design, and design maturity through all review gates.\n\n\nSTOP ANALYSIS & PERFORMANCE ASSURANCE\n\n - Own optomechanical performance across Structural, Thermal, and Optical Performance (STOP) domains.\n\n - Perform and review tolerance analyses, GD&T, structural FEA, thermal and thermo-elastic analyses.\n\n - Collaborate with optical engineers to support optical modeling and error budgets using Zemax, Speos, MATLAB, or equivalent analysis tools.\n\n - Ensure designs meet stiffness, strength, thermal stability, and survivability requirements.\n\n\nINTEGRATION, ALIGNMENT & TEST\n\n - Define alignment strategies, optical test equipment, tooling, fixtures, procedures, and assembly and test plans for precision optical systems.\n\n - Lead optomechanical integration, bonding, assembly, and alignment of flight and test hardware, including hands-on work in cleanroom or contamination-controlled environments as required.\n\n - Support optical metrology, calibration, test, characterization, and performance verification, including verification of as-built optical designs and test configurations.\n\n - Support environmental testing including vibration, shock, and thermal-vacuum; drive anomaly resolution and root-cause analysis.\n\n\nMANUFACTURING & DOCUMENTATION\n\n - Design for manufacturability, assembly, and test (DFM/DFA) while maintaining optical performance.\n\n - Manage procurement of optical components and subsystems, vendor fabrication, inspection requirements, and technical vendor relationships.\n\n - Produce and maintain detailed CAD models, drawings, BOMs, and assembly/test procedures.\n\n - Support transition from prototype to low- and mid-rate production as needed.\n\n\nTECHNICAL LEADERSHIP\n\n - Serve as the optomechanical technical lead for payload hardware.\n\n - Lead technical reviews and present designs to internal and external stakeholders.\n\n - Identify technical risks early and drive mitigation strategies.\n\n - Mentor junior engineers and help establish best practices in optomechanical design and integration.\n\n - Partner with program management to balance performance, schedule, and cost.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Optomechanical designs that meet performance requirements through launch and on-orbit environments.\n\n - Stable, repeatable optical alignment with well-understood tolerances and margins.\n\n - Hardware that integrates cleanly, tests efficiently, and qualifies without major rework.\n\n - Clear documentation and interfaces that enable fast iteration and scaling.\n\n - A team executing with rigor, ownership, and technical confidence.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or a related discipline.\n\n - 5+ years of experience in optomechanical design and development of precision optical systems.\n\n - Demonstrated experience owning optomechanical designs from requirements through integration and test.\n\n - Strong background in optical mounting, alignment, tolerancing, metrology, and materials, adhesives, and mounting approaches that preserve performance through varied thermal and vibration environments.\n\n - Proficiency with CAD tools (SolidWorks, Creo, or equivalent), GD&T, and FEA.\n\n - Hands-on experience with hardware integration, alignment, fabrication or assembly of optical hardware, environmental testing, and test and characterization of optical components and assemblies.\n\n - Experience producing high-quality technical documentation.\n\n - Strong communication skills and ability to lead cross-functional technical efforts.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Advanced degree in optics, physics, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical field.\n\n - Experience with spaceflight or other high-reliability aerospace systems.\n\n - Experience with EO/IR, hyperspectral, laser, or precision imaging payloads.\n\n - Familiarity with Zemax or similar optical design tools.\n\n - Experience with fabrication of optics or coatings, adhesives, bonding, and contamination-controlled assembly.\n\n - Experience supporting NASA, DoD, SBIR, or commercial space programs.\n\n - Comfort operating in fast-paced startup or rapid-development environments.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in El Segundo, CA, with onsite presence required (temporary remote flexibility may be considered). Some travel may be required.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS & BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Compensation: Competitive total package based on experience.\n\n - Equity: Early-stage equity package so you share directly in Matter’s growth and success.\n\n - Health & Wellness: 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage.\n\n - Growth: Opportunities to expand into leadership, strategic accounts, or cross-functional roles as we scale.\n\n\nWHO YOU ARE\n\nYou are a mission-driven technical leader who thrives at the intersection of engineering complexity, high-stakes decisions, and building real hardware that flies. You think holistically, communicate clearly, and elevate the entire engineering team around you.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}},{"id":"6e17ef74-7d30-478c-b9f5-bbf4a80b6016","title":"Product Researcher - Insurance","department":"Product","team":"Product","employmentType":"FullTime","location":"San Francisco","shouldDisplayCompensationOnJobPostings":false,"secondaryLocations":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-02T16:23:06.104+00:00","isListed":true,"isRemote":false,"workplaceType":"OnSite","address":{"postalAddress":{"addressRegion":"California","addressCountry":"United States","addressLocality":"San Francisco"}},"jobUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/6e17ef74-7d30-478c-b9f5-bbf4a80b6016","applyUrl":"https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matter-intelligence/6e17ef74-7d30-478c-b9f5-bbf4a80b6016/application","descriptionHtml":"Matter Intelligence is building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model - the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed cutting-edge sensors for U.S. Defense, and invented core algorithms for spectral and 3D imaging. We've come together to build the next infrastructure for vision and intelligence in the physical world.
Insurance is one of Matter’s first commercial verticals. We are working with leading property and casualty carriers to transform how they operate with data products that reveal real roof condition, material degradation, and hazard exposure at scale. We are looking for a Product Researcher to help Matter find the most impactful insurance products possible.
You will define and drive Matter’s insurance data-product roadmap. You will work directly with carrier executives and operator teams, translate workflows, economics, and adoption constraints into clear product requirements, packaging, and pricing, and partner with science, engineering, deployment, and commercial teams to scope products that revolutionize how property risk is assessed in the future while ensuring the P&L viability of Matter’s insurance vertical.
You will help determine what we build, why it matters, how it creates measurable customer and organizational value, and what it takes to scale from early deployment to repeatable product.
You will:
Own the insurance product roadmap
Work directly with customers to understand operational pain points, economics, approval processes, and adoption barriers
Translate spectral and geospatial capabilities into clear product specifications, customer-facing outputs, and prioritization decisions
Partner closely with science, engineering, and deployment to define product requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and prioritize features
Create tight feedback loops between customer iterations, deployment execution, and product iteration
Define ROI framework that supports customer conversations, internal prioritization, and commercial scale-up
Build out product economics, support pricing, drive packaging, and cost-to-serve
Prioritize product development based on insurer workflow impact, data-value creation, implementation feasibility, and commercialization readiness
Partner with Business Development on product-market fit, and market entry
Partner with Deployment to ensure product outputs integrate into real customer workflows and deliver measurable business impact
Represent the company in industry relevant venues
You understand how insurance organizations actually make decisions; you know how to take new products from 0-1; you know how to span actuarial, underwriting, claims, and digital products; and you know how to turn messy customer needs into products that teams will buy, trust, and use.
Must-haves:
Deep insurance domain expertise, ideally from building or commercializing data, analytics, or workflow products sold into P&C carriers or built within carriers
Strong experience in property insurance, preferably homeowners, or commercial property and adjacent lines
Experience shipping B2B data, analytics, or workflow products or in shipping P&C insurance products within digital environments from concept through launch and iteration
Strong product judgment and the ability to prioritize ruthlessly in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
Executive-level customer credibility and comfort working directly with leaders such as Chief Underwriting Officers, Heads of Product, Chief Technology Officers, or Heads of Claims/ VP of Claims operator executives
Ability to work cross-functionally with business, technical, and operational teams and drive alignment without heavy process
Bias to action. We're a 40-person company building category-defining technology. We move fast and figure things out.
Strong plus:
Experience with aerial imagery, geospatial data, remote sensing, or computer vision products
Experience at or alongside companies such as Verisk, CoreLogic, Nearmap, EagleView, Cape Analytics, or similar insurance data providers
Familiarity with property inspection, underwriting operations, CAT workflows, or claims estimation processes
Experience turning initial deployment work into standardized product packages and scaled enterprise deployments
Launch first insurer-ready product attributes
Convert initial deployment learnings into standardized product requirements for our first product package
Define ROI framework used in customer conversations
Help move initial lighthouse customers into scaled deployments together with our Deployment Strategist
Develop initial product roadmap based on initial lighthouse customer conversations
This is a full-time or part time role based in San Francisco, CA. On-site presence required.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
Compensation: Competitive compensation based on experience
Equity: Early-stage equity package so you share directly in Matter’s growth and success.
Health & wellness: 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Growth: Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths across insurance and other major industries
Welcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring a Mechanical Drafter to turn conceptual mechanical designs into precise, release-ready drawings for airborne optomechanical and optoelectrical payload hardware. This role partners closely with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and suppliers to ensure hardware is accurately documented, manufacturable, and cost-effective.
Detail conceptual designs and generate precise 3D CAD models, assembly drawings, part drawings, and bills of material for optical and optoelectrical assemblies, including lens housings, fixtures, mounts, and alignment mechanisms.
Perform tolerance analyses and select materials to ensure precision mechanical designs meet optical, performance, manufacturability, and reliability requirements.
Work with optical engineers to translate system-level optical requirements into robust mechanical designs; collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, and suppliers to optimize drawing packages and designs for manufacturability and cost.
Support prototype builds, fit checks, integration, and hardware troubleshooting by resolving drawing, tolerance, and configuration issues.
Maintain configuration discipline, drawing release quality, and revision control; incorporate lessons from fabrication, assembly, and test into drawing updates.
Demonstrated proficiency producing detailed mechanical drawings and documentation for precision assemblies.
Strong proficiency with NX or an equivalent CAD tool; deep understanding of precision mechanical design, ASME Y14.5-2018 GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, materials, and manufacturing processes.
Experience creating drawings for optical-system components such as lenses, lasers, sensors, and imaging assemblies; ability to collaborate effectively with optical engineers and manufacturing partners.
Ability to communicate drawing requirements, tolerances, and technical updates clearly to engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and suppliers.
Experience supporting optical, optoelectrical, aerospace, or precision-instrument assemblies.
Experience preparing drawing packages that support optical alignment, precision assembly, and inspection.
Familiarity with prototype and low-volume manufacturing environments, including supplier and manufacturing feedback loops.
Drawing packages are complete, accurate, manufacturable, and released on time with clear configuration control.
Optical and optoelectrical assemblies build and integrate as intended with minimal avoidable rework.
Drawing updates incorporate evidence from fabrication, assembly, and test quickly and accurately.
This role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"ABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring a Mechanical Drafter to turn conceptual mechanical designs into precise, release-ready drawings for airborne optomechanical and optoelectrical payload hardware. This role partners closely with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and suppliers to ensure hardware is accurately documented, manufacturable, and cost-effective.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Detail conceptual designs and generate precise 3D CAD models, assembly drawings, part drawings, and bills of material for optical and optoelectrical assemblies, including lens housings, fixtures, mounts, and alignment mechanisms.\n\n - Perform tolerance analyses and select materials to ensure precision mechanical designs meet optical, performance, manufacturability, and reliability requirements.\n\n - Work with optical engineers to translate system-level optical requirements into robust mechanical designs; collaborate with manufacturing, supply chain, and suppliers to optimize drawing packages and designs for manufacturability and cost.\n\n - Support prototype builds, fit checks, integration, and hardware troubleshooting by resolving drawing, tolerance, and configuration issues.\n\n - Maintain configuration discipline, drawing release quality, and revision control; incorporate lessons from fabrication, assembly, and test into drawing updates.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Demonstrated proficiency producing detailed mechanical drawings and documentation for precision assemblies.\n\n - Strong proficiency with NX or an equivalent CAD tool; deep understanding of precision mechanical design, ASME Y14.5-2018 GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, materials, and manufacturing processes.\n\n - Experience creating drawings for optical-system components such as lenses, lasers, sensors, and imaging assemblies; ability to collaborate effectively with optical engineers and manufacturing partners.\n\n - Ability to communicate drawing requirements, tolerances, and technical updates clearly to engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and suppliers.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience supporting optical, optoelectrical, aerospace, or precision-instrument assemblies.\n\n - Experience preparing drawing packages that support optical alignment, precision assembly, and inspection.\n\n - Familiarity with prototype and low-volume manufacturing environments, including supplier and manufacturing feedback loops.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Drawing packages are complete, accurate, manufacturable, and released on time with clear configuration control.\n\n - Optical and optoelectrical assemblies build and integrate as intended with minimal avoidable rework.\n\n - Drawing updates incorporate evidence from fabrication, assembly, and test quickly and accurately.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. 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Welcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.
Our team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.
Matter is hiring an Optical Engineer to help design, integrate, calibrate, and operate the optical path for our sensing payload. This role will work across optical design, optomechanics, calibration, systems engineering, and test.
Generate optical designs and system trade studies for advanced electro-optic sensors, balancing performance, manufacturability, and end-user utility across the required spectral range.
Decompose system requirements into optical system and subsystem requirements; derive optical specifications, drawings, interfaces, alignment approaches, tolerances, and performance budgets with adjacent engineering teams.
Perform optical analysis—including image simulation, radiometry, stop analysis, and stray-light analysis—and plan and execute optical assembly, alignment, characterization, calibration, and integration activities.
Support the design of optical test equipment, environmental, ground, and flight testing; analyze results, investigate performance gaps, and lead root-cause efforts.
Participate in design reviews and document optical requirements, test methods, calibration results, as-built optical designs, and configuration changes.
Advanced degree in optics, physics, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, with a strong foundation in optical engineering and experience applying it to physical systems.
Proficiency with Zemax or equivalent optical design and analysis software, along with experience in optical alignment, characterization, calibration, laboratory test methods, and design of test equipment and validation procedures.
Experience with stray-light analysis in FRED or equivalent, modeling optical alignment procedures, and using performance-prediction tools for novel optical systems.
Hands-on experience building and aligning optical assemblies, with a cross-functional approach to integration and troubleshooting.
Experience with imaging, spectroscopy, remote sensing, or precision optical instruments; familiarity with diffractive or meta-optics applications, manufacturing, and modeling.
Experience working across broad spectral ranges and tightly constrained payload packaging.
Familiarity with flight test, environmental test, and calibration under operational conditions.
Optical system meets defined performance and calibration requirements.
Alignment and calibration processes are repeatable, documented, and practical for field operations.
Flight-test data is translated quickly into clear root causes and design or process improvements.
This role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.
To comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:
A U.S. citizen or national
A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)
Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
At Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:
Competitive compensation based on experience
Early-stage equity package
100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world
Matter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.
","descriptionPlain":"Optical Engineer\n\n\nABOUT MATTER INTELLIGENCE\n\nWelcome to Matter, where we are building the future of vision AI: pairing a world-first sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model that will be the most powerful intelligence engine for the physical world. This system doesn't just see what something looks like; it understands everything from a single pixel. We call this Superintelligent Vision.\n\nOur team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL, designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense, and frontier artificial intelligence systems. We are now building the next generation of space- and airborne-based sensing systems.\n\n\nABOUT THE ROLE\n\nMatter is hiring an Optical Engineer to help design, integrate, calibrate, and operate the optical path for our sensing payload. This role will work across optical design, optomechanics, calibration, systems engineering, and test.\n\n\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\n\n - Generate optical designs and system trade studies for advanced electro-optic sensors, balancing performance, manufacturability, and end-user utility across the required spectral range.\n\n - Decompose system requirements into optical system and subsystem requirements; derive optical specifications, drawings, interfaces, alignment approaches, tolerances, and performance budgets with adjacent engineering teams.\n\n - Perform optical analysis—including image simulation, radiometry, stop analysis, and stray-light analysis—and plan and execute optical assembly, alignment, characterization, calibration, and integration activities.\n\n - Support the design of optical test equipment, environmental, ground, and flight testing; analyze results, investigate performance gaps, and lead root-cause efforts.\n\n - Participate in design reviews and document optical requirements, test methods, calibration results, as-built optical designs, and configuration changes.\n\n\nQUALIFICATIONS\n\n\nREQUIRED\n\n - Advanced degree in optics, physics, engineering, mathematics, or a related field, with a strong foundation in optical engineering and experience applying it to physical systems.\n\n - Proficiency with Zemax or equivalent optical design and analysis software, along with experience in optical alignment, characterization, calibration, laboratory test methods, and design of test equipment and validation procedures.\n\n - Experience with stray-light analysis in FRED or equivalent, modeling optical alignment procedures, and using performance-prediction tools for novel optical systems.\n\n - Hands-on experience building and aligning optical assemblies, with a cross-functional approach to integration and troubleshooting.\n\n\nPREFERRED\n\n - Experience with imaging, spectroscopy, remote sensing, or precision optical instruments; familiarity with diffractive or meta-optics applications, manufacturing, and modeling.\n\n - Experience working across broad spectral ranges and tightly constrained payload packaging.\n\n - Familiarity with flight test, environmental test, and calibration under operational conditions.\n\n\nWHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n - Optical system meets defined performance and calibration requirements.\n\n - Alignment and calibration processes are repeatable, documented, and practical for field operations.\n\n - Flight-test data is translated quickly into clear root causes and design or process improvements.\n\n\nLOCATION\n\nThis role is based in El Segundo, CA, and requires onsite work.\n\n\nITAR REQUIREMENTS\n\nTo comply with U.S. export regulations, applicants must be one of the following:\n\n - A U.S. citizen or national\n\n - A lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\n\n - Eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State\n\n\nEMPLOYEE OFFERINGS AND BENEFITS\n\nAt Matter, we believe in rewarding high performance and providing the support you need to thrive. Our compensation and benefits package includes:\n\n - Competitive compensation based on experience\n\n - Early-stage equity package\n\n - 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage\n\n - Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems with real-world deployment paths to the largest industries in the world\n\nMatter Intelligence is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds who can raise the ambition and performance of the team.","compensation":{"compensationTierSummary":null,"scrapeableCompensationSalarySummary":null,"compensationTiers":[],"summaryComponents":[]}}],"apiVersion":"1"}