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.