Clera

Founding Machine Learning Engineer

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Munich, GermanyMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$100k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build the ML function from the ground up, including post-training and agent systems.
  • Structure, filter, and score experimental trajectories for training-data pipelines.
  • Design and implement evaluations and benchmarks for model reasoning, planning, and experimental progress.
  • Build agent environments, tool interfaces, observability systems, and replay infrastructure.
  • Establish validation and provenance tracking for trajectory and data quality.
  • Set ML roadmap priorities across systems, experiments, and hiring, and guide the team’s technical direction as it grows.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of machine learning engineering experience building or delivering production ML systems.
  • 3 to 8 years of overall relevant experience preferred.
  • Strong Python and systems-level programming skills with production software engineering experience.
  • Hands-on experience with post-training ML and data pipelines for structuring, filtering, and scoring training data.
  • Experience designing and implementing model evaluation frameworks and benchmarks.
  • Understanding of trajectories, reward structures, tool use, and agent-environment design.
  • Experience with reinforcement learning algorithms and training systems is valuable.
  • Experience with agent environments, replay and debugging tools, data validation, provenance tracking, or ML pipeline observability is a plus.
  • Background in frontier AI research, scaled post-training or evaluation teams, or production agent systems is beneficial.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $100,000 to $250,000 USD.
  • On-site in Munich, Germany; Zurich, Switzerland, and San Francisco, United States are also listed, with remote arrangements potentially negotiable.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

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