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    Clera

    AI

    Co-Founder & CTO

    San Francisco, United StatesOn-SiteFull-timePosted 2h ago
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    Job description

    About the Role

    Join an early-stage AI creative technology company as an equal, full-time co-founder and CTO. You will set the technical and research direction and build a platform that learns to evaluate and improve creative work using real-world feedback.

    What You'll Do

    • Own the technical and research strategy, evolving existing workflows into a proprietary training and evaluation platform.

    • Build data infrastructure connecting creative briefs, submissions, generation traces, decisions, critiques, and campaign outcomes.

    • Develop systems to evaluate, rank, critique, generate, and improve creative work.

    • Design allocation policies that direct campaign budgets while informing data collection.

    • Make technical decisions about frontier models, fine-tuning, post-training, reinforcement learning, and original research.

    • Build production infrastructure for creator workflows, campaigns, experimentation, training, and inference.

    • Set standards for data quality, consent, privacy, measurement, and model evaluation.

    • Recruit and lead the initial engineering and research team, and work directly with creators and brands.

    What We're Looking For

    • Substantial hands-on experience in research or post-training at a leading AI lab or comparable research organization, including training agents or working with reinforcement learning.

    • Practical experience building preference or reward models, including RLHF, ranking subjective outputs, or evaluation systems.

    • Experience shipping products or features used by people, plus building production ML infrastructure.

    • Background in causal inference on observational data, including selection bias, off-policy or counterfactual evaluation, and adaptive experimentation.

    • Experience with ads, marketplace, recommender, or ranking systems tied to business outcomes, and learning from noisy, delayed, or subjective feedback.

    • Experience owning model, evaluation, or infrastructure programs end to end and recruiting and leading technical teams.

    • Production experience with bandits or online experimentation, multimodal ML, agents, planning, or latent-variable modeling is valuable.

    • Willingness to commit full-time to an early-stage co-founder role, with significant responsibility and uncertainty.

    Compensation & Benefits

    Equity is approximately 28% as an equal co-founder. Cash compensation is discussed based on circumstances and fit. Visa sponsorship is not available.

    Location

    On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    Clera

    Clera is a fast-growing AI start-up that is rethinking the way top talents find their next dream jobs. By automating and optimizing processes within the $600B global headhunting industry.

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    AI
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