Clera

Applied AI Engineer

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

Not stated in the posting: visa.

Open. First seen 2 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Build and own agent infrastructure for an AI-driven services company. You will help make agents reliable in production, with durable context, trustworthy evaluations, and clear paths for human intervention.

What You'll Do

  • Build and maintain infrastructure that helps agents execute tasks reliably across many iterations.
  • Design memory and retrieval systems that preserve useful context from messy operational data over time.
  • Develop evaluation harnesses that teams can use to make production deployment decisions.
  • Measure, test, troubleshoot, and improve agent systems, including failure recovery and retries.
  • Ship agent systems to customers and iterate based on production feedback.
  • Contribute across infrastructure, orchestration, customer collaboration, and team growth.

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 agent memory and context retrieval for real operational data, not only demo datasets.
  • Experience building evaluation harnesses used to guide production deployment decisions.
  • Experience with agent orchestration, infrastructure, workflow management, or agent tooling.
  • Experience implementing production reliability patterns, including failure recovery and retry logic.
  • Evidence of technical ownership, such as taking a project from conception to production, founding or leading a technical project, or contributing to open-source agent tooling or LLM infrastructure.
  • Early engineering experience at a high-growth or AI-focused startup, experience building complex production systems, or a strong technical education background.

Compensation & Benefits

$150,000 to $250,000 USD base salary, plus 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 200 open in Engineering. 134 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 (96 of 200), TypeScript (87 of 200), Python (81 of 200), React (75 of 200), Machine Learning (50 of 200), PostgreSQL (38 of 200), Supabase (35 of 200)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted once since 3 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

42 other open postings titled Applied AI Engineer state a salary: median USD 165,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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