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Applied AI Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$150,000 - $250,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco

Not stated in the posting: visa.

Open. First seen 23 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Build the production infrastructure that helps AI agents execute tasks reliably, retain useful context, and involve people when needed. You will work across agent systems, evaluation, and operational workflows, shipping improvements informed by real-world use.

What You'll Do

  • Build and maintain infrastructure that enables agents to complete tasks reliably across many iterations.
  • Design memory systems that retain client context from messy operational data over time.
  • Develop evaluation harnesses that teams can use to make production deployment decisions.
  • Measure, test, debug, and improve agent systems, including their ability to learn from failures.
  • Ship agent systems and iterate based on production feedback.
  • Contribute across infrastructure, orchestration, customer collaboration, and team growth as needed.

What We're Looking For

  • 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 memory and context retrieval for real operational data, beyond demo RAG projects.
  • Experience with agent orchestration, infrastructure, workflow management, and production reliability patterns such as retries and failure recovery.
  • Built evaluation harnesses for LLM systems that informed production deployment decisions.
  • Experience building agent tools, frameworks, or libraries, or leading a technical project from conception to production.
  • Open-source contributions to agent tooling or LLM infrastructure are a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually, with meaningful early equity. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, United States.

What this role asks for

Standard for data science / ML roles

LLM · Python

Common in data science / ML postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

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

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

Salary context

42 other open postings titled Applied AI Engineer state a salary: median USD 159,500 to USD 250,000 a year.

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