Job Overview
Location
Palo Alto
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Software Engineering
Date Posted
August 8, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • We're a seed-stage wearable AI company building an AI co-pilot for skilled field technicians — delivered through industrial smart glasses — that helps workers in high-stakes industries like data centers and energy infrastructure operate at an expert level.
- • Our stack spans edge inference, real-time voice/video, and agentic visual reasoning running on real hardware in demanding environments.
- • We're looking for a Founding AI Engineer with 1–5 years of experience who has shipped production multimodal and agentic AI systems to real users.
- • This is a hands-on, end-to-end ownership role at the core of our product — not a research or prototyping position.
- • Build and ship the production agentic Vision-Language Model (VLM) pipeline running on industrial smart glasses — multi-step, tool-using visual-reasoning loops against real customer workflows (SOPs, inspection, field service).
- • Own model orchestration and runtime optimization for edge inference, balancing model quality against latency with graceful degradation across variable connectivity conditions.
- • Design and build the evaluation harness and data flywheel from scratch — failure-mode capture, customer-data fine-tuning loops, and measurable quality improvements each release cycle.
- • Ship real-time voice and video AI interfaces tailored to different end-user profiles: video-heavy, conversational speech, and proactive alerting.
- • Build RAG pipelines for efficient creation and querying of enterprise knowledge bases from field operator data.
- • Drive multimodal model training for on-premise deployments: open-source model SFT, RL post-training, and quantization.
🎯 Requirements
- • Demonstrable track record shipping production multimodal and computer vision systems in the VLM era, owning the model layer end-to-end — with hands-on expertise in visual-language and/or video-language VLMs/VLAs.
- • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, or equivalent — graduated 2018 or later.
- • Willingness to work on-site 5 days/week in San Francisco, CA.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Salary: $180,000 – $240,000 USD annually
- • Early-stage equity as a founding team member
- • Visa sponsorship: Not available
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About Clera
Clera, Inc. operates as an AI Talent Agent, leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance and streamline various aspects of the talent acquisition and management process. The company's core offering appears to center on an AI-powered platform designed to connect skilled individuals with suitable opportunities or to assist organizations in efficiently sourcing and evaluating candidates. While comprehensive details regarding specific features, target industries, or the scale of its operations are not yet publicly available, the current online presence indicates that Clera's services are actively being prepared for launch. This suggests an upcoming introduction of innovative AI solutions aimed at optimizing the ecosystem where talent meets demand.
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