Clera

Founding AI Engineer

San Francisco. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will own evaluation systems, feedback loops, and LLM infrastructure for an AI-powered B2B pricing platform. You will build eval harnesses, automate expert review workflows, and develop AI personas to optimize pricing strategies.

What you will do

  • Build eval harnesses and benchmarks that use tracked pricing outcomes as ground truth
  • Systematize and automate expert review workflows
  • Develop AI personas that simulate B2B buying committees and behavioral effects
  • Automate persona training pipelines
  • Own LLM routing across providers with cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs
  • Maintain infrastructure and data residency boundaries
  • Extend the MCP server used by LLM agents
  • Define done as when agents can drive features through MCP
  • Work within a typed ontology of pricing entities
  • Identify and remediate systemic latency, data drift, and cold-start issues

Required qualifications

  • 8+ years of engineering experience with strong, recent production LLM depth
  • Proven track record shipping and owning LLM-powered product features in production
  • Direct hands-on experience building evals and observability for LLM systems
  • Experience with MCP or building tools/integrations for LLM agents
  • Familiarity with platforms such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Braintrust, or OpenRouter
  • Experience operating under data residency, SOC 2, and GDPR constraints in domains where correctness is audited
  • Strong communication skills
  • Product-engineer instincts
  • Authorized to work in the US

Nice to have

  • Experience building evaluation harnesses specifically for AI pricing recommendations using historical pricing outcomes as ground truth
  • Background in SaaS pricing, revenue operations, or a high-stakes revenue-impact domain

Benefits

  • Early-stage equity commensurate with a founding-team role
  • High-impact, high-ownership position with direct influence over product and technical direction

Before you apply

  • Authorized to work in the US
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this role

About the company

clera is a small, product-focused team building an AI-powered B2B pricing platform.

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