Mid-Level AI Engineer

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Mid-Level AI Engineer in USA

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

Responsibilities

Build and maintain agentic systems that automate multi-step workflows across regulated and enterprise domains.
Own RAG pipelines and retrieval infrastructure, including vector databases, embeddings, and indexing.
Implement multi-agent orchestration, tool-calling, memory, and reasoning capabilities.
Develop evaluation, testing, safety, and monitoring systems for production AI systems.
Ship full-stack products by designing APIs and data models, writing frontend and backend code, and operating production systems.
Collaborate with product, design, and leadership to prioritize work and iterate using user feedback and telemetry.

Requirements

Two to eight years of software engineering experience delivering shipped user-facing or backend products, including professional AI engineering experience beyond academic research.
Production experience deploying LLM 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.
Experience building automated tests, evaluations, and monitoring for production AI systems.
Familiarity with agent or workflow frameworks such as LangGraph or CrewAI and orchestration tools such as Temporal or Trigger.
Enterprise or multi-tenant systems experience, or experience in regulated industries, is valuable.

Benefits

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

Salary: $150k - $180k/yr

Clera

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