Clera

AI Engineer (Mid-Level)

San Francisco
Salary
$180,000 - $400,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco

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Open. First seen 6 November 2026.

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About the role

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

  • Salary: $180,000 – $400,000 USD annually (reflecting a wide band across base and equity depending on experience).
  • Early-stage equity in a venture-backed startup.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

CI/CD · GCP · LangChain · NoSQL · RAG · Vector Databases

Rare in Clera's other 182 open postings.

Standard for data science / ML roles

LLM · Python

Common in data science / ML postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 357 open in Engineering. 225 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (181 of 357), TypeScript (179 of 357), React (155 of 357), Python (150 of 357), Machine Learning (75 of 357), Supabase (73 of 357), PostgreSQL (69 of 357)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

Posting history

Reposted once since 9 September 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

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