Clera is a talent-matching platform that replaces traditional job applications by connecting candidates and hiring teams through curated introductions.
About the role Our client is a well-funded AI startup building production-grade ML infrastructure used by enterprise customers. They are looking for a Senior AI/ML Engineer to own model training pipelines, evaluation systems, and inference serving at scale. Full-time, on-site in San Francisco. WHAT YOU WILL DO - Design and ship end-to-end ML systems: data pipelines, training, evaluation, deployment - Own model performance, latency, and cost trade-offs in production - Build evaluation harnesses and offline benchmarks for fast iteration - Work directly with product to translate ambiguous goals into measurable model improvements - Mentor other engineers on ML best practices and code quality WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR - 4+ years of applied ML engineering in production environments - Hands-on experience with LLMs, fine-tuning, RAG, or large-scale recommender systems - Strong Python and PyTorch (or JAX) fundamentals - Experience with distributed training, GPU optimization, or inference serving - Pragmatic about trade-offs between research-grade and ship-grade work This role is presented by a recruiting partner. Company name shared after an initial conversation.