Clera
Founding Engineer (Applied AI)
About this role
Join an early-stage AI startup in San Francisco as a Founding Engineer to build production-grade computer vision and LLM systems that automate construction workflows like blueprint analysis and cost estimation. You'll own the intelligence layer end-to-end, shipping prototypes quickly and iterating with real users in a small, high-impact team.
What you'll do
- Design and advance AI/computer vision/ML systems end-to-end for construction automation
- Integrate latest CV models and LLMs into production-grade prototypes
- Coordinate multiple ML models within a model-garden architecture
- Ship working prototypes rapidly and iterate based on user feedback
- Handle essential early-stage product development work across the stack
- Drive the intelligence layer from research concept to deployed system
What they're looking for
- Computer vision
- Machine learning and deep learning
- Python
- Production ML systems
- Large language models (LLMs)
- 0-to-1 product building
- Model orchestration and architecture
- Direct user feedback iteration
Benefits
- Early-stage equity as a founding team member
- Full-time in-office role in San Francisco
- Opportunity to work on high-impact AI applied to real industry problems
- Direct influence on product direction and technical decisions
- Collaborative environment with transparent communication culture
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Clera
Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.
View all jobs at CleraLikely interview questions
- Walk us through a computer vision or ML project you shipped to production—what were the biggest obstacles and how did you solve them?
- Describe your experience with large language models and how you've integrated them into a real application.