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Clera

Founding Engineer, AI/ML

Salary

$130K - $170K

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$130k–$170k
Typical
$195k
Most pay
$160k–$240k
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Benefits

  • Equity
  • Relocation
  • Visa sponsorship

Skills

AI
API
Automation
Data Pipelines
Embeddings
LLM
Machine Learning
Python
PyTorch
React

Nice to have

Supabase
TensorFlow

Full job description

Description

About the Role

Build the intelligence layer for an AI-powered recruiting marketplace, including the systems that match candidates with relevant roles. As a founding engineer, you will take ownership of recommendation, ranking, retrieval, and LLM-powered matching from early design through production.

What You'll Do

  • Own the AI/ML systems for recommendations, ranking, and retrieval.

  • Build and improve LLM-powered candidate-to-role matching.

  • Turn product goals into working features and ship them at a rapid cadence.

  • Architect and maintain the production data pipelines and services that support models.

  • Work directly with company leadership to deliver product systems end to end.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California. The role requires working in person six days per week. Relocation assistance is available.

Requirements

What We're Looking For

  • Two to five years of software engineering experience building and shipping production product features.

  • Applied ML engineering experience at a product company or startup, including production recommendation, ranking, or matching systems.

  • Experience shipping LLM-powered features using LLM APIs, as well as hands-on work with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent ML frameworks.

  • Strong production engineering skills in TypeScript or Python, with experience maintaining data pipelines and services.

  • Strong computer science fundamentals and comfort with fast-paced, iterative startup work.

  • React experience is useful, as are Supabase, Prisma, Typesense or similar search infrastructure, embeddings, vector search, and workflow automation tools.

  • Evidence of strong technical achievement through education, open-source work, or personal projects.

Benefits

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $130,000 to $170,000 annually, plus founding-hire equity. Visa sponsorship is available.

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