# 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 multi-channel marketing agents. You will shape the agent architecture, evaluation systems, and learning loops that help the product deliver reliable results. What You'll Do Improve agent outputs and content quality across social channels and article writing, and build evaluations that make quality measurable. Improve search engine optimization and generative engine optimization performance. Build feedback loops that help agents learn from real-world results and performance signals. Improve 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 machine learning or AI systems, including recent hands-on work shipping LLM products or agents. Experience designing evaluation systems and using 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. Produ

- **Id**: 4341245
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-applied-ai-engineer-7>
- **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**: 2026-11-15T17:09:19Z
- **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**: 2002
- **Description truncated**: no
- **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

## 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: 2026-11-15T18:29:31Z

## 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:1, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T20:10:10Z

## Pay

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

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