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Senior AI/ML Engineer

Clera
Posted 24 days ago, valid for 4 days
Location

San Francisco, CA 94102, US

Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Our client, a well-funded AI startup in San Francisco, is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years of applied ML engineering experience in production environments.
  • The role involves designing and shipping end-to-end ML systems, owning model performance, and mentoring other engineers on ML best practices.
  • Candidates should have hands-on experience with LLMs, fine-tuning, and large-scale recommender systems, along with strong Python and PyTorch (or JAX) skills.
  • Experience with distributed training, GPU optimization, and inference serving is also required, emphasizing a pragmatic approach to trade-offs in work quality.
  • This is a full-time, on-site position, and the salary details will be shared after an initial conversation.

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.




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