Senior AI Engineer

Clera

$150K — $220K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience building and shipping LLM or agent systems end to end.
  • Hands-on experience with agent infrastructure: evaluations, retrieval, and tool integrations.
  • Strong fundamentals in computer science and mathematics; elite academic achievements are a plus.
  • Demonstrated automation mindset with a history of reducing manual workflows through code.
  • Empathy for patient interactions, with a knack for deriving product insights from these conversations.
  • Capacity to manage systems independently in a dynamic environment with minimal oversight.
  • Existing U.S. work authorization; visa sponsorship is not offered.
  • Proficiency in Python or alternative languages for developing agent infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Diagnose failures in AI patient conversations and implement preventative measures.
  • Build and maintain the infrastructure for AI agents, including tool integrations and evaluation systems.
  • Automate routine manual tasks in the clinic to enhance efficiency through coding.
  • Manage patient interactions with empathy, turning challenges into product improvements.
  • Own entire systems with little oversight, making independent architectural decisions.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance options.
  • Flexible work hours to promote work-life balance.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continued education.
  • Engaging work environment with a focus on innovation and technology.
Full Job Description
About the Role

You will own the patient facing AI conversation loop end to end, building robust agent systems that improve patient outcomes. You will work across tool integrations, evaluation frameworks, retrieval, and clinic side automation to ship code that directly impacts care quality.
What You'll Do
  • Diagnose why AI conversations with patients fail and ship fixes to prevent recurrence.
  • Build and maintain agent infrastructure including tool integrations, evals, and retrieval systems.
  • Automate recurring manual workflows on the clinic side to reduce toil through code.
  • Handle patient facing interactions with warmth when the AI falls short and translate these moments into product insights.
  • Own systems end to end with minimal oversight and make architectural decisions independently.
What We're Looking For
  • Experience building and shipping LLM or agent systems end to end across professional roles, personal projects, research, or open source.
  • Hands on experience with agent infrastructure: evals, retrieval, and tool integrations.
  • Strong CS and math fundamentals; elite academic signals are a plus.
  • Automation mindset with a track record of removing recurring manual workflows via code.
  • Warmth and empathy for patient facing interactions and ability to extract product learnings from conversations.
  • Autonomy to own systems in a fast moving environment with minimal supervision.
  • Existing US work authorization; visa sponsorship not available.
  • Proficiency in Python or equivalent for building agent infrastructure.
Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: USD 150,000 to 220,000 annually.
Location

On site in San Francisco, California, United States. Primary location: San Francisco, CA. Local remote options are not available for this role.

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