Clera

Founding Applied AI Engineer

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Base Salary

$180k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Improve agent output and content quality across social platforms and article writing.
  • Design and use evaluation systems to measure results and improve search engine optimization and generative engine optimization performance.
  • 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.
  • Own and ship applied AI work in an early-stage startup or small team.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience building production machine learning or AI systems, including recent hands-on experience shipping LLM products or agents.
  • Experience designing evaluations and using outcome signals at scale in search, ranking, recommendations, or related domains.
  • Strong TypeScript, including Next.js, and Python skills for data analysis, evaluations, and model work, with an end-to-end shipping track record.
  • Production experience in applied AI, including LLM reasoning or post-training, generative AI, agentic systems, search, recommendation systems, algorithms, or machine learning research.
  • Experience building feedback loops and improving AI infrastructure, agent architecture, or model strategy in production.
  • Strong research or applied AI achievements.
  • Search, ranking, or AI answer engine experience is valuable; marketing or go-to-market experience is a plus, and recommendation systems, algorithms, and reinforcement learning are relevant backgrounds.

Benefits

  • Annual base 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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