Founding Engineer (AI/ML)

The role

Build and own the recommendation, ranking, retrieval and matching systems for an AI-powered recruiting marketplace. Work with the founding team to turn product goals into production software.

What you will do

• Develop and operate recommendation, ranking, and retrieval systems.
• Build LLM-powered matching features that improve candidate and role alignment.
• Take features from problem definition through production, shipping at a rapid cadence.
• Architect and maintain the data pipelines and services that support production models.
• Partner with the founding team to translate product goals into working systems.

Required qualifications

• Two to five years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping end-to-end product features.
• Production experience with recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, or ML-powered matching, plus evidence of personally shipping ML models or products to users.
• Strong production engineering skills in TypeScript or Python.
• Hands-on experience using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or an equivalent ML framework.
• Experience building LLM-powered features with production APIs.
• Experience maintaining production data pipelines and services.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• Experience working in fast-paced environments with rapid iteration.
• Demonstrated technical achievement through substantial projects, open-source work, or comparable experience.

Nice to have

• React
• Supabase
• Prisma
• Typesense or similar search infrastructure
• Embeddings
• Vector search
• Workflow automation tools

Benefits

• Equity.

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.

About the company

clera runs an AI-powered recruiting marketplace. This role builds its intelligence layer.