Clera

Founding Applied AI Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$180,000 - $230,000
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Sponsors visas

Open. First seen 31 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

As the first senior AI hire at an early-stage AI marketing company, you will own the quality and intelligence of its multi-channel marketing agents. You will shape the agent architecture, evaluation systems, and learning loops, while helping build the AI team.

What You'll Do

  • Improve agent output and content quality across social platforms and article writing, using evaluation systems to measure results.
  • Improve search engine optimization and generative engine optimization performance.
  • Build feedback loops that help agents learn from real-world results and performance signals.
  • Improve production AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and supporting data pipelines.
  • Help hire and lead the AI team as it grows.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years building production machine learning or AI systems, with recent hands-on experience shipping LLM products or agents.
  • Experience designing evaluations and using outcome signals at scale in search, ranking, recommendations, or related domains.
  • Strong TypeScript, including Next.js, and Python skills for data analysis, evaluations, and model work, with a track record of shipping end to end.
  • Production experience in applied AI, such as LLM reasoning or post-training, generative AI, agentic systems, search, recommendation systems, algorithms, or machine learning research.
  • Experience building feedback loops and improving AI infrastructure, agent architecture, or model strategy in production.
  • Experience owning and shipping work in a startup or small team, plus strong research or applied AI achievements.
  • Search, ranking, or AI answer engine experience is valuable. Marketing or go-to-market experience is a plus; recommendation systems, algorithms, and reinforcement learning are also relevant backgrounds.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual base compensation is $180,000 to $230,000 USD. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California. Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Generative AI · Next.js

Rare in Clera's other 207 open postings.

Standard for data science / ML roles

LLM · 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 206 open in Engineering. 140 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 (99 of 206), TypeScript (90 of 206), Python (87 of 206), React (76 of 206), Machine Learning (48 of 206), JavaScript (37 of 206), PostgreSQL (36 of 206)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted once since 10 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

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