Clera

AI Engineer (Mid-Level)

San Francisco · Full-time

Clera

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AI Engineer (Mid-Level) is an open full-time job at Clera (San Francisco · On-site).

CompanyClera
LocationSan Francisco · On-site
TypeFull-time
DepartmentEngineering
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Posted2026-06-03
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About the Role

Join a fast-moving, pre-seed-backed AI startup building the next generation of agentic systems that automate complex, multi-step workflows across regulated and enterprise domains — including healthcare, legal, fintech, logistics, and compliance. As a mid-level AI Engineer on the core product team, you'll own production LLM-based services end-to-end, collaborate closely with founders and product, and ship features that deliver measurable impact for real users.

What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and maintain agentic systems that automate complex, multi-step workflows across regulated industries.
  • Own production retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and retrieval infrastructure, including vector databases, embeddings, and indexing for domain-specific search at scale.
  • Implement multi-agent orchestration, tool-calling, memory, and reasoning components to deliver robust AI-driven user experiences.
  • Develop evaluation and safety infrastructure to measure model performance, surface regressions, and enforce enterprise-level trust and reliability.
  • Ship full-stack AI products from MVP to enterprise-grade — designing APIs and data models, writing frontend and backend code, and operating production systems with CI/CD, monitoring, and testing.
  • Collaborate with founders, product, and design to prioritize work, define success metrics, and iterate based on user feedback and telemetry.

What We're Looking For

Must-haves:

  • 2–8 years of software engineering experience with demonstrated delivery of shipped user-facing or backend products.
  • Practical experience deploying LLMs or LLM-based services in production, including prompt design, orchestration, and tool integration.
  • Proficiency across the stack: Python plus TypeScript/React (or equivalent), cloud platforms (AWS or GCP), and relational or NoSQL databases.
  • Working knowledge of RAG patterns, vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines, with sound judgment on when to apply each approach.
  • Experience building automated tests, evaluations, and monitoring for AI systems to ensure reliability beyond demos.
  • Experience designing API-driven, high-throughput systems and real-time product features.

Nice-to-haves:

  • Experience with agent or workflow frameworks (e.g., LangGraph, CrewAI) and orchestration tools (e.g., Temporal, Trigger).
  • Familiarity with fine-tuning, parameter-efficient tuning, or multi-modal model integration.
  • Background building multi-tenant or enterprise-ready systems, or prior experience in regulated industries such as healthcare, fintech, or legal.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Early-stage equity in a venture-backed startup.

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