Clera

Founding Engineer (AI/ML)

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San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
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Base Salary

$130k - $170k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the full AI/ML intelligence layer, including recommendation, ranking, and retrieval.
  • Build and iterate on LLM-powered matching to improve candidate-role alignment.
  • Take features from problem definition through production on a daily shipping cadence.
  • Architect and maintain production data pipelines and services that run the models.
  • Work directly with the founding team to translate product goals into shipped systems.

Requirements

  • 2 to 5 years of production software engineering experience with genuine applied ML depth and models shipped to real users.
  • Hands-on production experience building recommender systems, ranking algorithms, or ML-powered matching.
  • Strong proficiency in TypeScript or Python, with either language sufficient on its own.
  • Production experience with LLM APIs and shipping LLM-powered features.
  • Experience building and maintaining production data pipelines and services.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and experience working in fast-paced, unstructured startup environments.
  • Outstanding open-source contributions, notable personal projects, or a rigorous computer science background.
  • Existing U.S. work authorization or eligibility for available sponsorship routes.
  • React, Supabase, Prisma, Typesense, trigger.dev, embeddings, or vector search experience is a nice-to-have.

Benefits

  • $130,000 to $170,000 annual salary plus competitive founding-hire equity.
  • Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.
  • On-site in San Francisco, California, six days per week.
  • Relocation assistance is available for candidates outside the Bay Area.
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