Clera

Applied AI Engineer

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8 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain infrastructure that helps LLM agents execute tasks reliably across many iterations.
  • Design memory and retrieval systems for preserving useful context from messy operational data.
  • Develop evaluation harnesses to support production deployment decisions.
  • Measure, test, troubleshoot, and improve agent systems, including failure recovery and retries.
  • Ship agent systems to customers and iterate based on production feedback.
  • Contribute across infrastructure, orchestration, customer collaboration, and team growth.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience building and shipping LLM agents that ran unattended in production for real users.
  • Strong Python skills and hands-on experience building production systems.
  • Experience implementing agent memory and context retrieval for real operational data.
  • Experience building evaluation harnesses used for production deployment decisions.
  • Experience with agent orchestration, infrastructure, workflow management, or agent tooling.
  • Experience implementing production reliability patterns, including failure recovery and retry logic.
  • Evidence of technical ownership through taking projects from conception to production, founding or leading technical projects, or contributing to open-source agent tooling or LLM infrastructure.
  • Early engineering experience at a high-growth or AI-focused startup, experience building complex production systems, or a strong technical education background.

Benefits

  • $150,000 to $250,000 USD base salary plus meaningful early equity.
  • Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available.
  • On-site role in San Francisco, United States.

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