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 7 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Own the machine learning function at an early-stage AI company, shaping post-training and agent systems from research through production. You will help set technical priorities and build the foundations for the ML team as it grows.

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 priorities for ML systems, experiments, and hiring, and lead technical direction as the team scales.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years of professional experience building or delivering production machine learning systems.
  • Hands-on experience with post-training ML, evaluation frameworks, and post-training data pipelines, including structuring, filtering, and scoring training data.
  • Strong Python and systems-level software engineering skills for ML infrastructure.
  • Experience with agents, reinforcement learning, trajectory data, reward structures, and agent environment design.
  • Experience building evaluation benchmarks, replay and debugging tools, data validation, provenance tracking, or observability systems.
  • Ability to bridge research and production, take ownership, and work effectively in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

On-site in Munich, Germany.

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 349 open in Engineering. 217 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 (169 of 349), TypeScript (163 of 349), React (137 of 349), Python (134 of 349), Supabase (69 of 349), PostgreSQL (68 of 349), Machine Learning (64 of 349)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted 2 times 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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