Clera

Founding Machine Learning Engineer

Munich
Salary
$100,000 - $250,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · Munich
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 30 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Own the machine learning function at an early-stage AI company, working with founders and researchers to shape post-training and agent systems. You will set technical priorities and help guide the growth of the ML team.

What You'll Do

  • Structure, filter, and score experimental trajectories for training data pipelines.
  • Design and implement evaluations and benchmarks for model reasoning, planning, and experimental progress.
  • Build reliable agent environments, tool interfaces, observability systems, and replay infrastructure.
  • Establish validation and provenance tracking for trajectory and data quality.
  • Set ML roadmap priorities across systems, experiments, and hiring.
  • Lead the technical direction of the ML team as it grows.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of professional machine learning engineering experience building or delivering production ML systems.
  • Strong machine learning and software engineering skills, including production experience with Python and systems-level programming for ML infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience with post-training ML, including data pipelines for structuring, filtering, and scoring training data.
  • Experience designing and implementing evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for ML models.
  • Knowledge of trajectories, reward structures, tool use, and agent environment design.
  • Experience with reinforcement learning, agent environments, replay systems, debugging tools, data validation, provenance, or ML pipeline observability.
  • Background in frontier AI research or scaled post-training and evaluation teams is valuable.
  • Comfort bridging research and production, taking ownership, and working in an ambiguous environment.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $100,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in Munich, Germany. Other listed locations include Zurich, Switzerland, and San Francisco, California.

What this role asks for

Standard for data science / ML roles

Machine Learning · 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 201 open in Engineering. 135 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

LLM (94 of 201), TypeScript (88 of 201), Python (81 of 201), React (74 of 201), Machine Learning (41 of 201), PostgreSQL (40 of 201), Supabase (36 of 201)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted once since 1 October 2026: a posting for this role in Munich was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

5 other open postings titled Founding Machine Learning Engineer state a salary: median USD 180,000 to USD 275,000 a year.

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