Senior Applied AI Engineer

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Senior Applied AI Engineer in USA

Clera
Full time
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USA
10/11/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Build and maintain infrastructure for reliable agent execution across long-running, multi-step tasks.
Design memory and retrieval systems for messy operational data and long-term context preservation.
Develop evaluation harnesses that inform LLM system deployment decisions.
Measure, test, debug, and improve agent systems across development and production.
Collaborate with customers and teammates to iterate on production agents, orchestration, and reliability.
Implement failure recovery, retries, and other production reliability patterns for agents.
Build agent tools, frameworks, or libraries and take technical projects from idea through production.

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience building and shipping LLM agents that run unattended in production for real users.
Strong Python skills and experience building production systems and agent infrastructure.
Experience developing evaluation harnesses used for production deployment decisions.
Hands-on experience with agent memory, operational-data context retrieval, and orchestration or workflow systems.
Experience implementing failure recovery, retries, or other production reliability patterns for agents.
Experience building agent tools, frameworks, or libraries, or taking a technical project from idea to production.

Benefits

Meaningful early equity.
Visa sponsorship is available.
On-site work in San Francisco, United States.

Salary: $150k - $250k/yr

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