Clera

Senior Member of Technical Staff

San Francisco
Salary
$150,000 - $215,000 annually
Level
Staff
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 31 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join a small, early-stage public safety technology team building AI tools to help law enforcement teams search and analyze complex evidence. In this high-autonomy role, you will build and deploy production systems that support sensitive investigative work.

What You'll Do

  • Build resilient, secure distributed systems for AI-powered evidence search and analysis.
  • Deploy large language models, vision models, and other machine learning systems in production settings.
  • Design retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and semantic search infrastructure for unstructured data.
  • Architect structured data systems, including query planning and semantic reasoning layers.
  • Develop or integrate agentic systems that reason, plan, and take actions across investigative data.
  • Keep pace with evolving AI models and infrastructure approaches, and drive solutions from idea through delivery.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 6 years of backend engineering experience building distributed systems, including senior, staff, founding, or technical leadership work.
  • Experience deploying LLMs, vision models, or other machine learning systems in production.
  • Proficiency across multiple programming languages, including Python; experience with JavaScript or React is useful.
  • Hands-on experience building RAG or similar pipelines for unstructured data and systems for structured data, such as query planning or semantic modeling.
  • Experience with multiple infrastructure providers and a strong foundation in system security and resilience.
  • Experience at both established technology organizations and early-stage startups is valued. Agentic AI experience is a plus.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range: $150,000 to $215,000 annually. Equity details were not provided.

Location

Hybrid in San Francisco, California.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

RAG

Rare in Clera's other 207 open postings.

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 2 times since 2 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

5 other open postings titled Senior Member of Technical Staff state a salary: median USD 200,000 to USD 300,000 a year.

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