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    Clera

    AI

    Founding Applied AI Engineer

    San Francisco, United StatesOn-SiteFull-time3+ yrs experience$180k – $230k / yearPosted 2h ago
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    Job description

    About the Role

    As the first senior AI hire at an early-stage AI company, you will own the quality and intelligence of multi-channel marketing agents. You will shape the agent architecture, evaluation systems, and learning loops that help the product deliver reliable results.

    What You'll Do

    • Improve agent outputs and content quality across social channels and article writing, and build evaluations that make quality measurable.

    • Improve search engine optimization and generative engine optimization performance.

    • Build feedback loops that help agents learn from real-world results and performance signals.

    • Improve AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and supporting data pipelines.

    • Help hire and lead the AI team as it 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 evaluation systems and using 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.

    • Production experience with applied AI, such as LLM reasoning, post-training, generative AI, agentic systems, search, recommendation systems, algorithms, or machine learning research.

    • Experience building feedback loops and improving production AI infrastructure, agent architecture, or model strategy.

    • Ownership experience in a startup or small team, plus experience with search, ranking, or AI answer engines, particularly Google.

    • Experience at a leading AI lab or comparable evidence of technical achievement is valued. Marketing or go-to-market experience, recommendation systems, algorithms, and reinforcement learning are relevant strengths.

    Compensation & Benefits

    Target annual compensation is $180,000 to $230,000 USD. Visa sponsorship is available.

    Location

    On-site in San Francisco, California.

    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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