Clera

Founding Applied AI Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$180k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Improve the quality of AI-generated social and article content using measurable evaluation systems.
  • Improve performance across search engine optimization and generative engine optimization.
  • Build feedback loops that help agents learn from real-world results and performance signals.
  • Improve production AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and supporting data pipelines.
  • Help hire and lead the AI team as it grows.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience building production ML or AI systems, including recent hands-on experience shipping LLM products or agents.
  • Experience designing evaluations and learning from outcome signals at scale in search, ranking, recommendations, or related areas.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript, including Next.js, and Python for data analysis, evaluations, and model work, with a record of shipping end to end.
  • Production applied AI experience in areas such as LLM reasoning or post-training, generative AI, agentic systems, search, recommendations, algorithms, or machine learning research.
  • Experience improving production AI systems and owning work in a startup or small-team environment.
  • Background at a leading AI lab or research program, or another achievement demonstrating comparable technical depth.
  • Experience with search, ranking, or AI answer engines is valuable; marketing or go-to-market experience, recommendation systems, algorithms, and reinforcement learning are also relevant.

Benefits

  • Target annual compensation is $180,000 to $230,000 USD.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site role in San Francisco, California; candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.
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