Founding Applied AI Engineer

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Founding Applied AI Engineer in USA

Clera
Full time
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USA
10/11/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Improve agent output and content quality across social channels and article writing.
Design evaluation systems that make AI quality measurable and actionable.
Improve search engine optimization and generative engine optimization performance.
Build feedback loops that help agents learn from real-world outcomes and performance signals.
Own AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and supporting data pipelines.
Help hire and lead the AI team as the organization grows.

Requirements

At least 3 years of experience building production machine learning or AI systems.
Recent hands-on experience shipping LLM products or agents.
Experience designing evaluation systems and learning from outcome signals at scale, particularly in search, ranking, or recommendations.
Strong TypeScript, including Next.js, and Python skills for end-to-end products, data analysis, evaluation, and model work.
Strong judgment about output quality and the ability to make it measurable and actionable.
Experience taking ownership in a startup or small-team environment.
Experience with search, algorithms, reinforcement learning, or marketing technology is relevant.

Benefits

Visa sponsorship is available.
On-site work in San Francisco, California.

Salary: $180k - $230k/yr

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