Founding AI Engineer

Clera

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• This is a founding engineering role at a seed-stage AI startup building the intelligence layer for the construction industry.
• The company uses cutting-edge computer vision and multimodal AI to transform messy blueprints, permits, and construction documents into actionable insights — reducing friction in cost estimation and permit workflows to make building faster, cheaper, and more equitable.
• You'll be one of the earliest engineers on the team, with direct ownership over AI systems that have real-world impact on housing, hospitals, and schools.
• This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role for someone who thrives in a 0-to-1 environment and wants to ship AI that people actually use.
• Apply state-of-the-art computer vision, LLM, and multimodal AI techniques to real-world construction documents.
• Own the intelligence layer — modeling, data pipelines, and inference — rather than the application UI.
• Rapidly prototype models and iterate based on user feedback and real production data.
• Build and deploy production AI systems that operate on noisy, heterogeneous inputs (images, text, PDFs, blueprints).
• Collaborate closely with product and end users to surface and solve high-impact problems.
• Embrace pragmatic full-stack AI engineering, including data labeling, ETL, and deployment tasks as part of a small team.
• Communicate progress and tradeoffs with empathy and transparency across the team.

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on applied computer vision and machine learning experience, including training and deploying models in production.
• Experience building end-to-end AI systems with a focus on the intelligence layer (not the application layer) in a production environment.
• Demonstrated 0-to-1 builder mindset: launching AI systems or building core parts of a new product at a startup or in an early-stage environment.
• Familiarity with state-of-the-art CV, LLM, and multimodal model approaches and tooling.
• Experience working with multimodal data — images, text, documents — in production.
• Ability to iterate quickly on prototypes based on real user feedback.
• Strong communication skills, growth mindset, and an honest, empathetic approach to collaboration.
• Willingness to handle practical, unglamorous engineering work as part of a small, scrappy team.

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary: $120,000 – $180,000 USD annually, depending on experience.
• Early-stage equity as a founding team member.

Skills & Technologies

Data Science

Remote

$120k-180k

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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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