
Applied AI Engineer
Clera · San Francisco · Onsite
- Internet & E-commerce
- 11–50 employees
- San Francisco
Mixed hiring record · median 4 days open
All reasons
- This role has been posted 4 times
- 34% of this employer's openings are over 60 days old
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- Posted today
- Still listed on the employer's own board
- Publishes a salary range
About the Role
Build and own agent infrastructure for an AI-driven services company. You will help make agents reliable in production, with durable context, trustworthy evaluations, and clear paths for human intervention.
What You'll Do
- Build and maintain infrastructure that helps agents execute tasks reliably across many iterations.
- Design memory and retrieval systems that preserve useful context from messy operational data over time.
- Develop evaluation harnesses that teams can use to make production deployment decisions.
- Measure, test, troubleshoot, and improve agent systems, including failure recovery and retries.
- Ship agent systems to customers and iterate based on production feedback.
- Contribute across infrastructure, orchestration, customer collaboration, and team growth.
What We're Looking For
- At least 3 years of experience building and shipping LLM agents that ran unattended in production for real users.
- Strong Python skills and hands-on experience building production systems.
- Experience implementing agent memory and context retrieval for real operational data, not only demo datasets.
- Experience building evaluation harnesses used to guide production deployment decisions.
- Experience with agent orchestration, infrastructure, workflow management, or agent tooling.
- Experience implementing production reliability patterns, including failure recovery and retry logic.
- Evidence of technical ownership, such as taking a project from conception to production, founding or leading a technical project, or contributing to open-source agent tooling or LLM infrastructure.
- Early engineering experience at a high-growth or AI-focused startup, experience building complex production systems, or a strong technical education background.
Compensation & Benefits
$150,000 to $250,000 USD base salary, plus meaningful early equity. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, United States.
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