Clera
AI Engineer (Mid-Level)
- Compensation
- $180K–$400K / yr
- From job posting
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- Arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- 27 September 2026 (3 days ago)
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About this role
ABOUT THE ROLE
This is a mid-level AI Engineer position on the core product team at a pre-seed AI startup, building agentic systems that automate complex, multi-step workflows across regulated and enterprise domains. You will work across the full stack to ship production LLM-based services, own reliability and safety infrastructure, and collaborate closely with founders and design to deliver measurable user impact.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Design, build, and maintain agentic systems that automate multi-step workflows across domains such as healthcare, legal, fintech, logistics, and compliance.
- 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 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.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- 2 to 8 years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping user-facing or backend products, ideally in a startup environment.
- Hands-on production experience deploying LLM-based services, including prompt design, orchestration, and tool integration.
- Full-stack proficiency in Python and TypeScript/React (or equivalent), plus 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 on when to apply each.
- Experience building automated tests, evaluations, and monitoring for AI systems to ensure production reliability beyond demos.
- Familiarity with agent or workflow frameworks such as LangGraph or CrewAI, and orchestration tools such as Temporal or Trigger.
- Background in 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.
- An ownership mindset: comfortable delivering end-to-end features from data model to deployment and monitoring.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Salary range: $180,000 to $400,000 USD annually (inclusive of equity component). Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States. Candidates should be able to work in-office or willing to relocate.
Work location
- San Francisco, CA, US
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Published 27 September 2026, last checked 3 days ago. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.