# Founding Machine Learning Engineer

About the Role Own the machine learning function at an early-stage AI company, shaping post-training and agent systems from research through production. You will help set technical priorities and build the foundations for the ML team as it grows. What You'll Do Structure, filter, and score experimental trajectories for training data pipelines. Design and implement evaluations and benchmarks for model reasoning, planning, and experimental progress. Build reliable agent environments, tool interfaces, observability systems, and replay infrastructure. Establish validation and provenance tracking for trajectory and data quality. Set priorities for ML systems, experiments, and hiring, and lead technical direction as the team scales. What We're Looking For At least 3 years of professional experience building or delivering production machine learning systems. Hands-on experience with post-training ML, evaluation frameworks, and post-training data pipelines, including structuring, filtering, and scoring training data. Strong Python and systems-level software engineering skills for ML infrastructure. Experience with agents, reinforcement learning, trajectory data, reward structures,

- **Id**: 3927127
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-machine-learning-engineer-12>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Munich, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-07T17:14:28Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-07
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T20:25:37Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1634
- **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**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T20:25:37Z

## Visa

- Country: DE; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 9; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 9 of its adverts here in 24 months; Cap exempt: no

## 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**: 2026-11-07T21:51:02Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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