Founding Applied AI Engineer

The role

You will own the quality and intelligence of multi-channel marketing agents. You will shape agent architecture, evaluation systems, and learning loops while helping build the AI team.

What you will do

• Improve the quality of agent-generated content for social channels and articles.
• Use evaluation systems to make quality measurable.
• Improve performance across search engine optimization and generative engine optimization.
• Build feedback loops that help agents learn from real-world results and performance signals.
• Improve production AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and supporting data pipelines.
• Help hire and lead the AI team as it grows.

Required qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience building production ML or AI systems.
• Recent hands-on work shipping LLM products or agents.
• Experience designing evaluations and learning from outcome signals at scale in search, ranking, recommendations, or related areas.
• Proficiency in TypeScript, including Next.js.
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis, evaluations, and model work.
• Track record of shipping end to end.
• Production applied AI experience in areas such as LLM reasoning or post-training, generative AI, agentic systems, search, recommendations, algorithms, or machine learning research.
• Experience improving production AI systems and owning work in a startup or small-team environment.
• Background at a leading AI lab or research program, or another achievement demonstrating comparable technical depth.

Nice to have

• Experience with search, ranking, or AI answer engines is valuable.
• Marketing or go-to-market experience, recommendation systems, algorithms, and reinforcement learning are also relevant.

Benefits

• Visa sponsorship is available.

About the company

clera is an early-stage AI company.