Clera

AI/ML Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$120,000 - $200,000 annually
Level
Junior
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 26 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an AI/ML team building tools to make production AI agents more reliable. You will own the intelligence that identifies agent failures, assesses confidence, and checks whether proposed fixes work.

What You'll Do

  • Detect subtle failures, including omissions, compliant but incorrect responses, and patterns that emerge across large volumes of traces.
  • Turn user behavior signals, such as rephrasing, abandonment, and retries, into evidence of agent failures.
  • Build evaluation methods to measure detection precision when labeled ground truth is limited or unavailable.
  • Make patch generation trustworthy by reproducing failures, verifying proposed fixes, and avoiding low-confidence changes.
  • Improve the cost efficiency of detection, choosing appropriate models and approaches for each event.
  • Review production customer traces regularly to identify problems and opportunities for improvement.

What We're Looking For

  • Demonstrated AI/ML engineering experience; candidates with 0 to 10 years of experience are welcome, including new graduates and people without a traditional degree.
  • Hands-on experience using LLMs in production, including evaluations, LLM-as-judge, embeddings, and deciding when a smaller model or no model is appropriate.
  • An individual-contributor engineering background and a track record of shipping products that people use.
  • Strong research judgment and the ability to distinguish meaningful improvements from noise, especially when ground truth is unavailable.
  • Experience running agents in production and learning from their failures is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $120,000 to $200,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, United States.

What this role asks for

Standard for data science / ML roles

LLM

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 449 open in Engineering. 383 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 (198 of 449), LLM (189 of 449), TypeScript (180 of 449), React (143 of 449), Machine Learning (118 of 449), PostgreSQL (84 of 449), JavaScript (80 of 449)

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

11 other open postings titled AI/ML Engineer state a salary: median USD 125,000 to USD 230,000 a year.

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