Founding Applied AI Engineer

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Founding Applied AI Engineer in USA new

Clera
Full time
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USA
11/01/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Improve agent output and content quality across social platforms and article writing.
Design and use evaluation systems to measure results and improve search engine optimization and generative engine optimization performance.
Build feedback loops that help agents learn from real-world results and performance signals.
Improve production AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and supporting data pipelines.
Help hire and lead the AI team as it grows.
Own and ship applied AI work in an early-stage startup or small team.

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience building production machine learning or AI systems, including recent hands-on experience shipping LLM products or agents.
Experience designing evaluations and using outcome signals at scale in search, ranking, recommendations, or related domains.
Strong TypeScript, including Next.js, and Python skills for data analysis, evaluations, and model work, with an end-to-end shipping track record.
Production experience in applied AI, including LLM reasoning or post-training, generative AI, agentic systems, search, recommendation systems, algorithms, or machine learning research.
Experience building feedback loops and improving AI infrastructure, agent architecture, or model strategy in production.
Strong research or applied AI achievements.
Search, ranking, or AI answer engine experience is valuable; marketing or go-to-market experience is a plus, and recommendation systems, algorithms, and reinforcement learning are relevant backgrounds.

Benefits

Annual base compensation is $180,000 to $230,000 USD.
Visa sponsorship is available.
On-site role in San Francisco, California; candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.

Salary: $180k - $230k/yr

Clera

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