Applied AI Engineer (Mid-Level)

Clera connects exceptional startup talent with early-stage companies building AI-native products, scalable SaaS, and consumer apps. We match engineers with roles where they ship quickly, influence direction, and work directly with founders and product teams.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain agentic systems that automate complex workflows.
• Own production RAG pipelines and retrieval infrastructure for domain-specific search at scale.
• Implement multi-agent orchestration, tool-calling, memory, and reasoning components.
• Develop evaluation and safety infrastructure to measure model performance.
• Ship full-stack AI products from MVP to enterprise-grade.
• Collaborate with founders, product, and design to prioritize work and iterate.

Minimum qualifications

• 2–8 years of software engineering experience.
• Practical experience deploying LLMs/LLM-based services in production.
• Proficiency across the stack: Python plus TypeScript/React or equivalent.
• Working knowledge of RAG patterns, vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines.
• Experience building automated tests, evaluations, and monitoring for AI systems.

About Clera

Clera represents engineers with deep AI experience to early-stage startups backed by leading investors.