Clera

AI Engineer (Mid-Level)

San Francisco. Posted 5 months ago

The role

You will design, build, and maintain agentic systems that automate complex workflows. You will own production RAG pipelines and ship full-stack AI products from MVP to enterprise-grade.

What you will do

  • Design, build, and maintain agentic systems that automate complex, multi-step workflows across regulated industries.
  • Own production retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and retrieval infrastructure.
  • Implement multi-agent orchestration, tool-calling, memory, and reasoning components.
  • Develop evaluation and safety infrastructure to measure model performance and enforce reliability.
  • Ship full-stack AI products from MVP to enterprise-grade.
  • Design APIs and data models.
  • Write frontend and backend code.
  • Operate production systems with CI/CD, monitoring, and testing.
  • Collaborate with founders, product, and design to prioritize work and iterate based on user feedback.

Required qualifications

  • 2–8 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated delivery of shipped user-facing or backend products.
  • Practical experience deploying LLMs or LLM-based services in production, including prompt design, orchestration, and tool integration.
  • Proficiency across the stack: Python plus TypeScript/React (or equivalent), cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), and relational or NoSQL databases.
  • Working knowledge of RAG patterns, vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines.
  • Experience building automated tests, evaluations, and monitoring for AI systems.
  • Experience designing API-driven, high-throughput systems and real-time product features.

Nice to have

  • Experience with agent or workflow frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI) and orchestration tools (e.g., Temporal, Trigger).
  • Familiarity with fine-tuning, parameter-efficient tuning, or multi-modal model integration.
  • Background building multi-tenant or enterprise-ready systems, or prior experience in regulated industries such as healthcare, fintech, or legal.

Benefits

  • Salary: $180,000 – $400,000 USD annually
  • Early-stage equity in a venture-backed startup

About the company

clera is a pre-seed-backed AI startup building agentic systems that automate complex, multi-step workflows across regulated and enterprise domains.