Clera

Senior AI/ML Engineer

San Francisco
Level
Senior
Work type
On-site · San Francisco

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 6 November 2026.

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About the role

About the role
Our client is a well-funded AI startup building production-grade ML infrastructure used by enterprise customers. They are looking for a Senior AI/ML Engineer to own model training pipelines, evaluation systems, and inference serving at scale. Full-time, on-site in San Francisco.

What you will do

  • Design and ship end-to-end ML systems: data pipelines, training, evaluation, deployment
  • Own model performance, latency, and cost trade-offs in production
  • Build evaluation harnesses and offline benchmarks for fast iteration
  • Work directly with product to translate ambiguous goals into measurable model improvements
  • Mentor other engineers on ML best practices and code quality

What we are looking for

  • 4+ years of applied ML engineering in production environments
  • Hands-on experience with LLMs, fine-tuning, RAG, or large-scale recommender systems
  • Strong Python and PyTorch (or JAX) fundamentals
  • Experience with distributed training, GPU optimization, or inference serving
  • Pragmatic about trade-offs between research-grade and ship-grade work

This role is presented by a recruiting partner. Company name shared after an initial conversation.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

RAG

Rare in Clera's other 299 open postings.

Standard for data science / ML roles

LLM · PyTorch · 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 358 open in Engineering. 226 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 (180 of 358), TypeScript (177 of 358), React (154 of 358), Python (146 of 358), Machine Learning (74 of 358), Supabase (73 of 358), PostgreSQL (68 of 358)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Other openings for this role

2 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

9 other open postings titled Senior AI/ML Engineer state a salary: median USD 200,000 to USD 270,000 a year.

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