Founding Engineer, AI/ML
- Remote (anywhere)
- Full-time
- Software engineering
- $130K–$170K / year
- Posted recently
You’ll apply on Clera’s own site.
About the Role
Build the intelligence layer for an AI-powered recruiting marketplace, including the systems that match candidates with relevant roles. As a founding engineer, you will take ownership of recommendation, ranking, retrieval, and LLM-powered matching from early design through production.
What You’ll Do
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Own the AI/ML systems for recommendations, ranking, and retrieval.
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Build and improve LLM-powered candidate-to-role matching.
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Turn product goals into working features and ship them at a rapid cadence.
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Architect and maintain the production data pipelines and services that support models.
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Work directly with company leadership to deliver product systems end to end.
What We’re Looking For
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Two to five years of software engineering experience building and shipping production product features.
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Applied ML engineering experience at a product company or startup, including production recommendation, ranking, or matching systems.
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Experience shipping LLM-powered features using LLM APIs, as well as hands-on work with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent ML frameworks.
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Strong production engineering skills in TypeScript or Python, with experience maintaining data pipelines and services.
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Strong computer science fundamentals and comfort with fast-paced, iterative startup work.
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React experience is useful, as are Supabase, Prisma, Typesense or similar search infrastructure, embeddings, vector search, and workflow automation tools.
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Evidence of strong technical achievement through education, open-source work, or personal projects.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $130,000 to $170,000 annually, plus founding-hire equity. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California. The role requires working in person six days per week. Relocation assistance is available.