Clera is hiring a Founding Applied AI Engineer in San Francisco to lead quality, evaluation, and learning for multi-channel marketing agents.

Raise the bar on agent output and content quality for social platforms and article writing by building and using evaluation systems to measure outcomes.
Improve SEO and generative engine optimization performance for agent-generated content.
Design feedback loops that let agents learn from real-world results and performance signals.
Own and evolve production AI systems, including agent architecture, model strategy, and supporting data pipelines.
Support AI team growth by helping hire and leading the team as it scales.

3+ years building production machine learning or AI systems, with recent hands-on experience shipping LLM products or agents.
Experience designing evaluations and using outcome signals at scale in search, ranking, recommendations, or related domains.
Strong TypeScript skills, including Next.js, plus Python for data analysis, evaluations, and model work; demonstrated end-to-end shipping experience.
Production experience with applied AI, including areas such as LLM reasoning or post-training, generative AI, agentic systems, search, recommendation systems, algorithms, or machine learning research.
Proven ability to build and improve feedback loops and production AI infrastructure, agent architecture, or model strategy.
Experience owning and shipping work in a startup or small team, along with strong research or applied AI achievements.
Search, ranking, or AI answer engine experience is valuable.
Marketing or go-to-market experience is a plus; recommendation systems, algorithms, and reinforcement learning are relevant.

Founding Applied AI Engineer

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