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Founding Applied AI Engineer

$180k - $230k

Clera

Job Description

Job Description

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI marketing technology company as its first senior AI hire. You will own the quality and intelligence of multi-channel marketing agents, shape the AI architecture and evaluation systems, and help build the AI team as the company grows.

What You'll Do
  • Improve agent output and content quality across social channels and article writing, using evaluation systems to measure results.

  • Improve search engine optimization and generative engine optimization performance.

  • Build feedback loops that help agents learn from real-world outcomes and performance signals.

  • Improve AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and supporting data pipelines.

  • Help hire and lead the AI team as the organization grows.

What We're Looking For
  • At least 3 years of experience building production machine learning or AI systems, including recent hands-on work shipping LLM products or agents.

  • Experience designing evaluations and learning from outcome signals at scale in search, ranking, recommendations, or related domains.

  • Proficiency in TypeScript, including Next.js, and Python for data analysis, evaluations, and model work, with the ability to ship end to end.

  • Experience building feedback loops and improving production AI infrastructure, agent architecture, or model strategy.

  • Search, ranking, or AI answer engine experience, particularly involving Google, is valuable.

  • Experience owning and shipping work in a startup or small team; marketing or go-to-market experience is a plus, as are recommendation systems, algorithms, and reinforcement learning.

  • Strong technical fundamentals demonstrated through relevant work, research, or comparable accomplishments.

Compensation & Benefits

Target annual compensation is $180,000 to $230,000 USD. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.

Vacancy posted 6 days ago
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