Senior Applied AI Engineer
Clera · San Francisco
- Location
- San Francisco
- Salary
- $150,000 to $250,000 USD
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Funding
- $3M
- Posted
- Oct 10, 2026
Clera is hiring a Senior Applied AI Engineer based in San Francisco. Every apply link on Engg.space goes straight to the company's own careers page - no recruiter middleman, no generic job-board form.
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ABOUT THE ROLE Own the agent infrastructure that helps AI systems execute tasks reliably, retain context, and involve people when needed. You will build and ship production systems, using real-world feedback to improve how agents plan, recover, and perform. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and maintain infrastructure for reliable agent execution across long-running, multi-step tasks. - Design memory and retrieval systems that work with messy operational data and preserve useful context over time. - Develop evaluation harnesses that teams can trust when deciding whether to deploy LLM systems. - Measure, test, debug, and improve agent systems throughout the development and production lifecycle. - Collaborate with customers and teammates to iterate on production agents, orchestration, and reliability. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - At least 3 years of experience building and shipping LLM agents that run unattended in production for real users. - Strong Python skills and experience building production systems and agent infrastructure. - Experience developing evaluation harnesses used to inform production deployment decisions. - Hands-on background with agent memory, context retrieval for operational data, and orchestration or workflow systems. - Experience implementing failure recovery, retries, or other production reliability patterns for agents. - Experience building agent tools, frameworks, or libraries; a technical project taken from idea to production is also relevant. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary of $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually, plus meaningful early equity. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, United States.
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