AI Engineer (Mid-Level)

San Francisco · On-site$180k – $400k + Equity

About this role

This role is for a mid-level AI Engineer on Clera's core product team, building agentic systems that automate complex, multi-step workflows across regulated and enterprise domains. Youll work across the stack to ship production LLM-based services, ensure reliability and safety, and collaborate with founders, product, and design to deliver measurable user impact.

What youll do

  • Design, build, and maintain agentic systems that automate complex, multi-step workflows across healthcare, legal, fintech, logistics, and compliance.
  • Own production retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and retrieval infrastructure including vector DBs, 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 by designing APIs and data models, implementing 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.
  • Location: Remote, San Francisco, CA.

What Clera is looking for

  • 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), and experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) and relational or NoSQL databases.
  • Working knowledge of RAG patterns, vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines, with sound judgment to choose appropriate approaches.
  • Experience building automated tests, evaluations, and monitoring for AI systems to ensure reliability beyond demos.
  • 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 experience in regulated industries such as healthcare, fintech, or legal.
  • Experience designing API-driven, high-throughput systems and real-time product features.
  • Proven ownership delivering end-to-end features from data model to deploy and monitoring, with a user-centric and pragmatic engineering mindset.

Company at a glance

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IndustryComputer Software
Team Size11-50
WorkspaceOn-site
StagePre-Seed
Founded2025
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
LinkedInLinkedIn

Top Benefits

  • Competitive salary + equity
  • Flexible hours
  • Health insurance
  • Learning budget
  • Hackerhouse
  • Work with a team of A-players

Culture & values

Impact-Driven

Innovation First

Growth Mindset

Maximizing Presence - values in-person collaboration

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