Clera
Senior AI/ML Engineer
San Francisco. Posted 5 months ago
The role
The Senior AI/ML Engineer will design and ship end-to-end ML systems including data pipelines, training, evaluation, and deployment. You will own model performance, latency, and cost trade-offs in production.
What you will do
- Design and ship end-to-end ML systems: data pipelines, training, evaluation, deployment
- Own model performance, latency, and cost trade-offs in production
- Build evaluation harnesses and offline benchmarks for fast iteration
- Work directly with product to translate ambiguous goals into measurable model improvements
- Mentor other engineers on ML best practices and code quality
Required qualifications
- 4+ years of applied ML engineering in production environments
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, fine-tuning, RAG, or large-scale recommender systems
- Strong Python and PyTorch (or JAX) fundamentals
- Experience with distributed training, GPU optimization, or inference serving
- Pragmatic about trade-offs between research-grade and ship-grade work
About the company
The client is a well-funded AI startup building production-grade ML infrastructure used by enterprise customers.