Clera
From company careers site
Founding Applied AI Engineer
- Location
- San Francisco
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join an early-stage AI marketing technology company as its first senior AI hire. You will own the quality and intelligence of multi-channel marketing agents, shape the AI architecture and evaluation systems, and help build the AI team as the company grows.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Improve agent output and content quality across social channels and article writing, using evaluation systems to measure results.
- Improve search engine optimization and generative engine optimization performance.
- Build feedback loops that help agents learn from real-world outcomes and performance signals.
- Improve AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and supporting data pipelines.
- Help hire and lead the AI team as the organization grows.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- At least 3 years of experience building production machine learning or AI systems, including recent hands-on work shipping LLM products or agents.
- Experience designing evaluations and learning from outcome signals at scale in search, ranking, recommendations, or related domains.
- Proficiency in TypeScript, including Next.js, and Python for data analysis, evaluations, and model work, with the ability to ship end to end.
- Experience building feedback loops and improving production AI infrastructure, agent architecture, or model strategy.
- Search, ranking, or AI answer engine experience, particularly involving Google, is valuable.
- Experience owning and shipping work in a startup or small team; marketing or go-to-market experience is a plus, as are recommendation systems, algorithms, and reinforcement learning.
- Strong technical fundamentals demonstrated through relevant work, research, or comparable accomplishments.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Target annual compensation is $180,000 to $230,000 USD. Visa sponsorship is available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California.
From Clera's careers page (Ashby), checked 29 Oct 2026.
How to apply
- Select Apply on getclera.com. It opens Clera's own application form in a new tab, run on Ashby.
- Fill in the form and upload your résumé there. Jobiwork never sees your application.
- Clera will reply to you directly. No real employer asks you for money to apply.
Posted 23 Oct 2026 · checked 29 Oct 2026 · Report this job