Co-Founder & CTO

The role

You will own research strategy, product development, and team building for an early-stage AI marketing technology company. You will build a training and evaluation platform for creative AI using data from a live product.

What you will do

• Set technical and research strategy
• Build data infrastructure connecting briefs, submissions, generation traces, decisions, critiques, and campaign outcomes
• Develop systems to evaluate, rank, critique, generate, and improve creative work
• Design allocation policies that direct campaign budgets and inform dataset collection
• Make decisions about frontier models, fine-tuning, post-training, reinforcement learning, and original research
• Build reliable infrastructure for creator workflows, campaigns, experimentation, training, and inference
• Establish standards for data quality, consent, privacy, measurement, and model evaluation
• Recruit and lead the initial engineering and research team
• Work directly with creators and brands

Required qualifications

• Hands-on research or post-training experience at a leading AI research organization
• Experience building preference or reward models, RLHF, ranking, or evaluation systems
• Practical reinforcement learning or agent-training experience
• Production ML infrastructure experience
• Experience shipping products or features used by people
• Experience owning a model, evaluation, or infrastructure program end to end
• Background in causal inference with observational data, including selection bias, off-policy or counterfactual evaluation, and adaptive experimentation
• Experience with noisy, delayed, or subjective outcomes and ads, marketplace, recommender, or ranking systems tied to business results
• Strong technical recruiting and team leadership experience
• Willingness to work in person with the commitment and uncertainty of an early-stage co-founder

Nice to have

• Bandits
• sequential allocation
• multimodal AI
• planning
• latent-variable modeling

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is not available

About the company

clera is an early-stage AI marketing technology company.