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# Senior AI/ML Engineer

- **Company:** CLERA, LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $280,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software Quality, Distributed Computing Environment, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Recommender Systems, Pytorch, Large Language Models, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** May 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c65ea5f4d78d3f08

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Production systems?, * 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

## Description

* 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


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