Founding Machine Learning Engineer
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Role Summary
Join Cleara as a founding Machine Learning Engineer, shaping the future of AI systems remotely with a competitive salary and equity participation.
About the Organisation
This is a founding-level Machine Learning Engineer role at a well-funded Series A AI data and services startup based in Mountain View, CA. You will join a small, high-caliber team building and scaling core ML systems from the ground up — bridging research and engineering to design, train, and ship production-grade models for top AI frontier labs. This is a high-ownership position where your work directly shapes the company's technical culture, infrastructure, and long-term ML impact.
The company specializes in high-quality training and post-training data, reinforcement learning environments, and intelligent agents — serving both frontier AI labs and enterprise customers. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and optimize end-to-end ML pipelines, from data ingestion through to deployment.
- Implement and fine-tune LLMs, embeddings, and generative models for real-world applications.
- Develop efficient training and inference systems leveraging distributed compute.
- Partner with data and product teams to translate ideas into measurable ML impact.
- Contribute to model monitoring, evaluation, and continual learning frameworks.
- Establish best practices in model versioning, reproducibility, and scalability.
Working Conditions
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- Base salary: $220,000 – $300,000 USD annually
- Equity participation as a founding team member
- Opportunity to establish technical direction and culture at an early-stage, high-growth company
- On-site — Mountain View, California, United States
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position
Requirements
Eligibility Criteria
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