# Founding Applied AI Engineer

About the Role As the first senior AI hire at an early-stage AI company, you will own the quality and intelligence of its multi-channel marketing agents. You will shape agent architecture, evaluation systems, and learning loops, and help build the AI team as the company grows. What You'll Do Improve the quality of agent-generated content for social channels and articles, using evaluation systems to make quality measurable. Improve performance across search engine optimization and generative engine optimization. Build feedback loops that help agents learn from real-world results and performance signals. Improve production AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and supporting data pipelines. Help hire and lead the AI team as it grows. What We're Looking For At least 3 years of experience building production ML 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 areas. Proficiency in TypeScript, including Next.js, and Python for data analysis, evaluations, and model work, with a track record of shipping end to end

- **Id**: 3946209
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-applied-ai-engineer-6>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-08T17:11:01Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T09:57:43Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2017
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: yes

## 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**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 180000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T20:42:58Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 51; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 51 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 36
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.361
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:0, agency, stale_co, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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