About the role
Patsnap's Materials team builds intelligent systems that help materials scientists and engineers search, extract, and reason over materials science and patent data. You will own the agentic layer of our products end-to-end from product development to implementing the observability tooling and feedback loops to improve them continuously in production.
What you'll be doing
Design, build, and productionize agentic systems that beat general-purpose AI agents in our domain.
Develop MCP servers (tool design, description and schema) that improve the performance of other agents on tasks in our domain.
Build evaluation frameworks with domain experts to measure answer quality, retrieval performance and scientific accuracy.
Own production reliability & observability of agents you develop from instrumentation to model/provider evals.
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or any field where analytical and critical thinking was demonstrated.
5+ years of software or ML engineering, including 1+ years building and maintaining production LLM-based systems.
Designed evaluations for LLM or agent systems - eval sets, quality metrics, human-expert and/or LLM-judge pipelines.
You have instrumented, monitored, and debugged live AI services (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Arize Phoenix, Langfuse, Datadog, or similar).
Strong software engineering and system design fundamentals.
Nice to have
API/SDK product or MCP (Model Context Protocol) server design experience.
Materials science, chemistry, or patent/IP domain exposure.
PatSnap?is a global, hyper-growth, venture-backed start-up with offices in London, Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Singapore, Toronto and LA. Our cloud-based software enables innovators to be more effective in their research and investment decisions and bring new inventions to market faster.?
Our hyper-growth trajectory is powered by our people, and we are extremely proud of our company-wide vision, work ethic, and entrepreneurial spirit. Ideas are always welcome, regardless of seniority, because we believe that open innovation amplifies success throughout every department: product development, marketing, sales or operations.?
PatSnappers?like to learn, grow and make a difference. Join us and be part of our story.?