# Co-Founder & CTO

About the Role Join an early-stage AI creative technology company as an equal, full-time co-founder and CTO. You will set the technical and research direction and build a platform that learns to evaluate and improve creative work using real-world feedback. What You'll Do Own the technical and research strategy, evolving existing workflows into a proprietary training and evaluation platform. Build data infrastructure connecting creative briefs, submissions, generation traces, decisions, critiques, and campaign outcomes. Develop systems to evaluate, rank, critique, generate, and improve creative work. Design allocation policies that direct campaign budgets while informing data collection. Make technical decisions about frontier models, fine-tuning, post-training, reinforcement learning, and original research. Build production infrastructure for creator workflows, campaigns, experimentation, training, and inference. Set standards for data quality, consent, privacy, measurement, and model evaluation. Recruit and lead the initial engineering and research team, and work directly with creators and brands. What We're Looking For Substantial hands-on experience in research or post-t

- **Id**: 4341238
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-co-founder-cto-10>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: cofounder
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-15T17:14:59Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-15
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T18:29:31Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2474
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2706
- **Name**: Clera
- **Domain**: getclera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clera>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Technologies

- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reward Modeling** — Optional: no
- **RLHF** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-15T18:29:31Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 49; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 49 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:2, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T20:36:34Z

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