Clera

Founding AI Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$225k - $255k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build evaluation harnesses and benchmarks using tracked pricing outcomes as ground truth.
  • Automate expert review workflows and persona-training pipelines that are currently manual.
  • Develop AI personas simulating B2B buying committees and behavioral effects from usage data and call transcripts.
  • Own LLM routing across providers while balancing cost, latency, and quality.
  • Maintain infrastructure and data-residency boundaries, including EU-only model calls where required.
  • Extend the MCP server for LLM agents, including customer-facing agents, and define feature completion around agent-driven capabilities.
  • Maintain structured, auditable model outputs through a typed ontology of pricing entities.
  • Identify and remediate latency, data drift, and cold-start issues in the pricing loop.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience with strong, recent production LLM depth.
  • Proven experience shipping and owning LLM-powered product features in production.
  • Hands-on experience building evaluations and observability for LLM systems.
  • Experience with MCP or with building tools and integrations for LLM agents.
  • Familiarity with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Braintrust, or OpenRouter.
  • Experience operating under data residency, SOC 2, and GDPR constraints in audited, high-stakes domains.
  • Strong communication skills for explaining non-deterministic systems to clients, partners, and pricing experts.
  • Ability to scope pragmatic product-engineering solutions and deliver in a lean startup environment.
  • Authorized to work in the US.
  • Preferred: experience evaluating AI pricing recommendations using historical pricing outcomes as ground truth.
  • Preferred: background in SaaS pricing, revenue operations, or another high-stakes revenue-impact domain.

Benefits

  • Early-stage equity commensurate with a founding-team role.
  • High-impact, high-ownership position with direct influence over product and technical direction.
  • On-site role in San Francisco, California; candidates should be based in or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area.

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