Founding Engineer, AI/ML
- Pay
- $130,000 – $170,000 per year
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Listed
- 5 days ago
About the Role
Build the intelligence layer for an AI-powered recruiting marketplace, including the systems that match candidates with relevant roles. As a founding engineer, you will take ownership of recommendation, ranking, retrieval, and LLM-powered matching from early design through production.
What You'll Do
- Own the AI/ML systems for recommendations, ranking, and retrieval.
- Build and improve LLM-powered candidate-to-role matching.
- Turn product goals into working features and ship them at a rapid cadence.
- Architect and maintain the production data pipelines and services that support models.
- Work directly with company leadership to deliver product systems end to end.
What We're Looking for
- Two to five years of software engineering experience building and shipping production product features.
- Applied ML engineering experience at a product company or startup, including production recommendation, ranking, or matching systems.
- Experience shipping LLM-powered features using LLM APIs, as well as hands-on work with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or equivalent ML frameworks.
- Strong production engineering skills in TypeScript or Python, with experience maintaining data pipelines and services.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and comfort with fast-paced, iterative startup work.
- React experience is useful, as are Supabase, Prisma, Typesense or similar search infrastructure, embeddings, vector search, and workflow automation tools.
- Evidence of strong technical achievement through education, open-source work, or personal projects.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary is $130,000 to $170,000 annually, plus founding-hire equity. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
- On-site in San Francisco, California.
- The role requires working in person six days per week.
- Relocation assistance is available.
From Clera's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 4, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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