# Founding Engineer (AI/ML)

About the Role Build the intelligence layer for an AI-powered recruiting marketplace, including the recommendation, ranking, retrieval, and matching systems at the core of the product. You will own these systems end to end and work closely with the founding team to turn product goals into production software. What You'll Do Develop and operate recommendation, ranking, and retrieval systems. Build LLM-powered matching features that improve candidate and role alignment. Take features from problem definition through production, shipping at a rapid cadence. Architect and maintain the data pipelines and services that support production models. Partner with the founding team to translate product goals into working systems. What We're Looking For Two to five years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping end-to-end product features. Production experience with recommendation systems, ranking algorithms, or ML-powered matching, plus evidence of personally shipping ML models or products to users. Strong production engineering skills in TypeScript or Python, with hands-on experience using PyTorch, TensorFlow, or an equivalent ML framework. Experience build

- **Id**: 4083729
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-aiml-11>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: junior
- **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**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-11T17:04:11Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T18:18:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1955
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Relocation assistance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence

## 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**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 130000
- **Max**: 170000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 170000

## Technologies

- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Prisma** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Recommender Systems** — Optional: no
- **Supabase** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Typesense** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T18:18:20Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 45; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 45 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:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T21:06:26Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 170000
- **Is top pay**: no

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