# Founding Machine Learning Engineer

About the Role As the founding machine learning engineer at an early-stage AI company, you will build the ML function from the ground up. You will shape post-training and agent systems, connecting research with reliable production infrastructure. 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 to support trajectory and data quality. Set priorities for the ML roadmap, experiments, systems, and hiring. Guide the technical direction of the ML team as it grows. What We're Looking For At least 3 years of professional machine learning engineering experience building or delivering production ML systems. Professional experience in post-training or model evaluations, including hands-on work structuring, filtering, and scoring training data. Production software engineering experience with Python and systems-level programming for ML infrastructure. Experience designing and implementing

- **Id**: 4320163
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-machine-learning-engineer-13>
- **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**: 2026-11-14T17:14:05Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T19:35:39Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2004
- **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**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

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

## Technologies

- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **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
- **Switzerland** — Iso: CH; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T19:35:39Z

## Visa

- Country: DE; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 6; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 6 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:2, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T21:45:27Z

## Pay

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

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