Clera
Senior Applied AI Engineer (Agentic Systems)
San Francisco · Senior
No sponsorship$185k-$210kDetected 3 days ago
Distributed SystemsTemporalMachine LearningLLMsRAGAgentic AIAI OrchestrationManual Testing
About the role
- The platform automates high-stakes compliance workflows - turning manual, multi-week approval cycles into hours - for large regulated-industry brands.
- This is a hybrid, in-office role based in San Francisco, CA (3 days/week in-office).
- You will work directly alongside a small, senior engineering team at a critical architectural inflection point.
Responsibilities
- Agentic Reasoning & Orchestration: Design and evolve multi-agent LLM systems that decompose complex review tasks into reliable, auditable steps.
- Stateful, Asynchronous Workflows: Own long-running, fault-tolerant workflows using Temporal (or similar), ensuring retries, versioning, and determinism across non-deterministic model calls.
- Evaluation, Safety & Reliability: Build evaluation frameworks using statistical metrics, gold labels, and automated regression testing to prove system reliability. Prioritize correctness and trust, especially in high-risk legal and compliance scenarios.
- Demonstrated expertise architecting multi-agent AI systems: agent role design, multi-step reasoning flows, tool integration, memory/retrieval architectures, and deterministic/auditable workflows
- Experience building and owning production-grade evaluation and safety frameworks for AI systems
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software/ML engineering experience
- Minimum 2-year average tenure across roles, with a clear track record of career progression and promotions
- Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks and stateful workflow engines (e.g., Temporal, Prefect, or equivalent)
- Startup experience or equivalent experience in CPG, regulated industries, or enterprise compliance domains
- Must be eligible to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.
- San Francisco, CA, United States - Hybrid (3 days/week in-office required).
Nice to have
- Background in marketing technology, packaging compliance, or regulatory tech (regtech)
- Familiarity with enterprise compliance workflows or brand governance processes
- Prior experience as a founding or early-stage engineer
Skills
- Prioritize correctness and trust, especially in high-risk legal and compliance scenarios.
Compensation
- $185,000 - $210,000 per year
Benefits
- Collaborate on image and document preprocessing (OCR, layout analysis, Vision Language Models) to ensure downstream agents receive structured, machine-readable context.
- Equity participation (early-stage, Series A)
Company info
- This is a founding-level, senior individual contributor role at a Series A AI compliance SaaS company building the system of record for enterprise marketing and packaging review.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Must be eligible to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
This listing is sourced directly from Clera's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.