AI Engineer (Mid-Level)

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AI Engineer (Mid-Level) in USA

Clera
Full time
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USA
09/20/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain agentic systems that automate multi-step workflows across healthcare, legal, fintech, logistics, and compliance domains.
Own production RAG pipelines and retrieval infrastructure, including vector databases, embeddings, and indexing for domain-specific search at scale.
Implement multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, memory, and reasoning components for AI-driven user experiences.
Develop evaluation and safety infrastructure to measure model performance, identify regressions, and enforce enterprise-level reliability.
Ship full-stack AI products by designing APIs and data models, implementing frontend and backend code, and operating production systems.
Collaborate with founders, product, and design to prioritize work, define success metrics, and iterate using user feedback and telemetry.

Requirements

2 to 8 years of software engineering experience with a record of shipping user-facing or backend products.
Hands-on AI and software engineering experience deploying production LLM services, including prompt design, orchestration, and tool integration.
Full-stack proficiency in Python and TypeScript/React or equivalent, plus experience with AWS or GCP and relational or NoSQL databases.
Working knowledge of RAG patterns, vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines.
Experience building automated tests, evaluations, and monitoring for production AI systems.
Experience designing API-driven, high-throughput systems and real-time product features.
Familiarity with agent or workflow frameworks such as LangGraph or CrewAI and orchestration tools such as Temporal or Trigger is preferred.
Experience with multi-tenant or enterprise-ready systems or regulated industries such as healthcare, fintech, or legal is preferred.
Ability to work with ownership and cross-functional collaboration in an early-stage startup environment.

Benefits

Annual salary range of $180,000 to $400,000 USD.
On-site in San Francisco, California; candidates must be able to work on-site or be willing to relocate.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Salary: $180k - $400k/yr

Clera

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