Senior Member of Technical Staff

The role

You will build resilient, secure distributed systems for AI-driven evidence search and analysis. You will deploy large language models, vision models, and other machine learning systems in production settings.

What you will do

• Build resilient, secure distributed systems for AI-driven evidence search and analysis
• Deploy large language models, vision models, and other machine learning systems in production settings
• Design retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and semantic search infrastructure for unstructured data
• Architect structured data systems, including query planning and semantic reasoning layers
• Develop or work with agentic systems that reason, plan, and take actions across investigative data
• Evaluate emerging AI models and infrastructure approaches, and drive solutions from idea through deployment

Required qualifications

• At least 6 years of backend engineering experience building distributed systems
• Experience in senior, staff, founding, or technical leadership roles
• Production experience deploying LLMs, vision models, or other machine learning systems
• Strong skills across multiple programming languages, including Python
• Experience with React and multiple infrastructure providers
• Hands-on experience building RAG or similar pipelines for unstructured data
• Experience with systems for structured data such as query planning or semantic modeling
• Experience building secure, resilient systems
• Experience working in both established technology environments and early-stage startups
• Comfort with ambiguity, fast iteration, and taking ownership
• Authorization to work in the United States is required

Nice to have

• Experience with agentic AI systems

Before you apply

• Authorization to work in the United States is required
• Visa sponsorship is not available

About the company

clera is a small, early-stage team building AI-powered software for law enforcement and other public-sector investigative workflows.