Clera

Founding ML Research Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$200k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build evaluation systems using real conversations and user preferences to measure product quality.
  • Post-train large language models with supervised fine-tuning, preference tuning, and distillation, and ship improvements to production.
  • Develop and evaluate model routing across smaller and more capable models.
  • Balance response quality, latency, and model costs across the product.
  • Improve agent reliability for website navigation, sign-in, and checkout flows without APIs.
  • Test adversarial inputs, data exposure, and unintended actions, and build safeguards and evaluations.
  • Apply ML to memory, retrieval, tool selection, and decisions about when to act or ask the user.
  • Review real conversations, identify improvement opportunities, and help set research direction as the team grows.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of ML or software engineering experience in an AI lab, AI product company, or equivalent environment.
  • Hands-on experience fine-tuning or post-training large language models and shipping results to production.
  • Experience designing evaluations such as LLM judges, human preference data, or traffic replay for product decisions.
  • Background in one or more of red teaming, browser or computer-use agents, model routing, or production agents with tool use and long-running memory.
  • Strong Python skills and familiarity with the ML stack.
  • Comfort using TypeScript for product code.
  • Ability and interest to take ownership and set research direction with a founding-team mindset.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Full-time, on-site work in San Francisco, California.
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