ForgeApply · Job listing
Senior AI/ML Engineer
Clera
Apply in about a minute — without sacrificing quality.
ForgeApply autofills this application and tailors your resume to this exact posting. You review everything before it's sent. Free trial, no card required.
About this role
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.
Salary insight
This posting doesn't disclose pay. Across 6,260 San Francisco jobs with disclosed salaries on ForgeApply, the median is $203k.
See full Machine Learning Engineer salary data for San Francisco →
Based on live postings with disclosed pay on ForgeApply; refreshed daily. Not an estimate of this employer's offer.
Ready to apply to Clera?
Apply in about a minuteSimilar jobs
- Senior AI/ML Engineer — Sigmacomputing · New York City, NY
- Senior AI/ML Engineer — Sigmacomputing · San Francisco, CA
- Senior AI/ML Engineer — Velir · Remote
- Senior AI/ML Engineer — Sandbar · New York City
- Senior AI/ML & Data Engineer — Accenturefederalservices · Chantilly, VA
- Senior AI Engineer — Fieldguide · San Francisco, CA
- Senior AI Engineer — 2k · Novato, California, United States
- Senior AI Engineer — Ruby-labs · Remote
More like this: Machine Learning & AI Jobs · Machine Learning & AI Jobs in San Francisco · More jobs at Clera · Browse all jobs