Clera

Founding Machine Learning Engineer

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Munich, GermanyStaff+

Base Salary

$100k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build the ML function from the ground up across post-training, agent systems, and production infrastructure.
  • Structure, filter, and score experimental trajectories for training-data pipelines.
  • Design and implement evaluations and benchmarks for model reasoning, planning, and experimental progress.
  • Build agent environments, tool interfaces, observability systems, and replay infrastructure.
  • Establish validation and provenance tracking for trajectory and data quality.
  • Set priorities for the ML roadmap, experiments, systems, and hiring.
  • Guide the technical direction of the growing ML team.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of professional machine learning engineering experience building or delivering production ML systems.
  • Professional experience in post-training or model evaluations, including hands-on training-data structuring, filtering, and scoring.
  • Production software engineering experience with Python and systems-level programming for ML infrastructure.
  • Experience designing and implementing ML evaluation frameworks and benchmarks.
  • Strong knowledge of trajectory data, reward structures, tool use, and agent decision-making.
  • Experience with agent environments, replay and debugging tools, reinforcement-learning training systems, or data-validation and observability infrastructure.
  • Reinforcement-learning implementation and tuning experience, frontier AI research, or experience with scaled post-training and evaluation teams is valuable.
  • Ability to own priorities and work across research and production in an ambiguous environment.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $100,000 to $250,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
  • On-site role in Munich, Germany; Zurich, Switzerland, and San Francisco, California are also listed, and remote arrangements may be discussed.

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