Clera

Founding Engineer (AI/ML)

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4 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$130k - $170k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own recommendation, ranking, and retrieval systems from design through production.
  • Build and improve LLM-powered matching features and measure their impact on candidate-role alignment.
  • Take product features from problem definition to production and ship improvements rapidly.
  • Architect and maintain data pipelines and production services supporting machine learning models.
  • Work directly with company leadership to convert product goals into deployed systems.

Requirements

  • Two to five years of experience building and shipping end-to-end software features in production.
  • Hands-on experience building recommendation, ranking, or machine-learning-based matching systems for real users.
  • Experience building LLM API-powered features and shipping machine learning models or products to production.
  • Strong production engineering skills in TypeScript or Python, with experience using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent frameworks.
  • Experience building and maintaining production data pipelines and services, with strong computer science fundamentals.
  • More than six months of substantive work experience in the United States.
  • Substantive machine learning experience at a recognized product company or credible startup.
  • Demonstrated technical achievement through open-source contributions, notable personal projects, or comparable accomplishments.
  • React experience and familiarity with Supabase, Prisma, database design, Typesense or similar search infrastructure, embeddings, vector search, or workflow automation tools are helpful.

Benefits

  • Founding-hire equity is offered.
  • Visa sponsorship is available for candidates eligible for a supported sponsorship route.
  • The role is on-site in San Francisco, California, six days per week.
  • Candidates must be based in San Francisco or willing to relocate.
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