Clera

Founding Applied AI Engineer

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San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$180k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Improve the quality of AI agent outputs for social channels and article writing.
  • Design and use evaluation systems to measure agent performance and content quality.
  • Improve search engine optimization and generative engine optimization performance.
  • Build feedback loops that use real-world outcomes and performance signals to improve agents.
  • Develop AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and supporting data pipelines.
  • Own and ship end-to-end AI work in an early-stage startup environment.
  • Help hire and lead the AI team as the organization grows.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience building production machine learning or AI systems.
  • 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 domains.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript, including Next.js, and Python for data analysis, evaluations, and model work.
  • Ability to ship end to end and experience building feedback loops or improving production AI infrastructure, agent architecture, or model strategy.
  • Search, ranking, or AI answer engine experience, particularly involving Google, is valuable.
  • Startup or small-team ownership experience; marketing or go-to-market experience is a plus.
  • Experience with recommendation systems, algorithms, or reinforcement learning is a plus.
  • Strong technical fundamentals demonstrated through relevant work, research, or comparable accomplishments.

Benefits

  • Target annual compensation of $180,000 to $230,000 USD.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California.

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