Mid-Level AI Engineer

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Mid-Level AI Engineer in USA

Clera
Full time
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USA
10/03/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Design and maintain agentic systems for multi-step workflows across healthcare, legal, fintech, logistics, and compliance domains.
Build and operate retrieval-augmented generation pipelines involving vector databases, embeddings, indexing, and domain-specific search.
Implement multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, memory, and reasoning components.
Develop evaluations, automated tests, safety measures, and monitoring for production performance and reliability.
Ship full-stack features by designing APIs and data models, writing frontend and backend code, and supporting deployment and production operations.
Partner with product and design to set priorities, define success measures, and iterate using user feedback and telemetry.

Requirements

Two to eight years of software engineering experience delivering user-facing or backend products.
Production experience deploying LLM-based services, including prompt design, orchestration, and tool integration.
Proficiency with Python and TypeScript/React or equivalent, plus cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP and relational or NoSQL databases.
Working knowledge of RAG, vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines.
Experience designing API-driven, high-throughput systems and real-time product features, with production testing and monitoring experience.
Experience with agent or workflow frameworks and orchestration tools is useful.
Background in multi-tenant enterprise systems or regulated industries is relevant.
Familiarity with fine-tuning or multimodal models is a plus.

Benefits

Annual salary of $150,000 to $180,000 USD.
On-site work in San Francisco, California.
Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $150k - $180k/yr

Clera

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