Clera

Founding Engineer - ML Research

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2 days ago
Mountain View, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$220k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, train, and evaluate machine learning models, including LLMs, diffusion models, and domain-specific architectures.
  • Develop scalable experimentation pipelines covering data processing, model training, and evaluation workflows.
  • Collaborate with data and infrastructure teams to optimize training throughput and data quality.
  • Contribute to internal benchmarks, open research, and emerging multimodal and generative AI techniques.
  • Prototype research insights and productionize them into usable tools and models.
  • Set standards for research rigor, documentation, and reproducibility across the team.

Requirements

  • 3–10 years of experience in ML research, applied ML, or ML systems engineering.
  • Deep familiarity with PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow and architectures such as Transformers, diffusion models, or RLHF.
  • Strong foundations in data processing, distributed training, and evaluation metrics.
  • Ability to turn research papers into working prototypes and production-ready code.
  • Interest in multimodality, self-learning, synthetic data, and agentic systems.
  • Comfort building from zero to one in a fast-moving, unstructured environment.

Benefits

  • Annual salary of $220,000–$300,000 USD.
  • On-site role in Mountain View, California.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Tech Stack

PyTorchTensorFlow

Categories

AI ResearchML Engineering
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