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Clera

Member of Technical Staff

San Francisco
Salary
$130,000 - $220,000 annually
Level
Staff
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 23 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join a small engineering team building AI software for hospitality operations. You will own full-stack components of systems that handle guest requests, from understanding intent and retrieving relevant information to coordinating tools and generating responses.

What You'll Do

  • Build response-generation components, including intent routers, orchestrators, and systems for deciding when to respond or escalate.
  • Develop retrieval pipelines that ground responses in accurate, current customer information.
  • Create reliable tool orchestration for multi-step workflows, including recovery from third-party API failures.
  • Build evaluation frameworks to assess real conversations and identify regressions before release.
  • Implement observability and tracing that help support teams understand system behavior.
  • Create interfaces and controls that let non-technical users configure agent behavior.
  • Extend capabilities to voice, including real-time transcription and tool use.
  • Improve speed and cost through model routing, caching, and prompt refinement, while contributing to infrastructure, data pipelines, integrations, and APIs.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including 3 or more years building and shipping production systems used by real people.
  • Substantive startup or founder experience delivering real products.
  • Experience designing and debugging production AI or machine learning systems, including retrieval, prompt engineering, or model orchestration.
  • Experience building and evaluating retrieval systems, such as knowledge bases, ranking, context validation, or semantic search.
  • Experience with multi-step workflows, tool orchestration, or function calling, as well as production evaluation and testing methods.
  • Proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, or Java, and ability to work across backend, frontend, infrastructure, or data pipelines.
  • Experience integrating third-party APIs and handling production failure modes, plus observability or debugging for complex pipelines.
  • Real-time or low-latency systems experience is useful. Voice, transcription, user-facing configuration tools, and model cost or latency optimization are also relevant.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $130,000 to $220,000 annually, with 0.20% to 1.20% equity. Comprehensive health insurance and a 401(k) match are provided. Visa sponsorship is not available; candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 430 open in Engineering. 364 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (183 of 430), LLM (182 of 430), TypeScript (171 of 430), React (136 of 430), Machine Learning (109 of 430), PostgreSQL (78 of 430), JavaScript (75 of 430)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

Other openings for this role

3 open postings for this role in San Francisco, first posted 9 September 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.

Salary context

37 other open postings titled Member of Technical Staff state a salary: median USD 175,000 to USD 300,000 a year.

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