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Job description
Clera is hiring a Founding AI/ML Engineer — a full-time, based in San Francisco, CA role. Apply directly on Clera's careers page below.
Founding AI/ML Engineer
Department: Engineering
Location: San Francisco
Employment Type: FullTime
About the Role
Build the intelligence layer for an AI-powered recruiting marketplace, including the systems that match candidates with relevant roles. You will own recommendation, ranking, and retrieval capabilities from early design through production.
What You'll Do
Design and build recommendation, ranking, and retrieval systems for candidate-role matching.
Develop LLM-powered features and improve matching quality using measurable outcomes.
Take product features from problem definition to production, shipping at a rapid cadence.
Build and maintain the data pipelines and backend services that support production models.
Work with company leadership to translate product goals into working systems.
What We're Looking For
Two to five years of experience building and shipping end-to-end software features in production.
Production experience with recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, or ML-powered matching.
Experience shipping ML models or ML-powered products to users, with hands-on work in PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent frameworks.
Proficiency in TypeScript or Python and experience building production features with LLM APIs.
Experience maintaining production data pipelines and services, ideally in a fast-moving startup environment.
Strong computer science fundamentals; React, embeddings, vector search, Supabase, Prisma, Typesense, or workflow automation tools are helpful.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary is $130,000 to $170,000 annually, plus competitive founding-hire equity. Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California. The role works in person six days per week.
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