Senior Member of Technical Staff
Clera · San Francisco · onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join a small, early-stage public safety technology team building AI tools to help law enforcement teams search and analyze complex evidence. In this high-autonomy role, you will build and deploy production systems that support sensitive investigative work.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build resilient, secure distributed systems for AI-powered evidence search and analysis.
- Deploy large language models, vision models, and other machine learning systems in production settings.
- Design retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and semantic search infrastructure for unstructured data.
- Architect structured data systems, including query planning and semantic reasoning layers.
- Develop or integrate agentic systems that reason, plan, and take actions across investigative data.
- Keep pace with evolving AI models and infrastructure approaches, and drive solutions from idea through delivery.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- At least 6 years of backend engineering experience building distributed systems, including senior, staff, founding, or technical leadership work.
- Experience deploying LLMs, vision models, or other machine learning systems in production.
- Proficiency across multiple programming languages, including Python; experience with JavaScript or React is useful.
- Hands-on experience building RAG or similar pipelines for unstructured data and systems for structured data, such as query planning or semantic modeling.
- Experience with multiple infrastructure providers and a strong foundation in system security and resilience.
- Experience at both established technology organizations and early-stage startups is valued. Agentic AI experience is a plus.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary range: $150,000 to $215,000 annually. Equity details were not provided.
LOCATION
Hybrid in San Francisco, California.