AI Engineer

Clera; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Salary negotiable

Job summary

Clera is an early-stage startup building AI-powered talent acquisition tools. We’re hiring AI Engineers to scale our backend and optimize LLM-driven workflows. You’ll join a tight, high-agency team where your work directly improves performance and user experience.

We’re seeking 1–2 exceptionally strong backend-focused engineers comfortable with ambiguity and ownership. On-site in Stockholm with visa-free eligibility.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience delivering scalable production systems.
• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs and optimizing AI agent workflows in live production environments.
• Startup experience — you're comfortable with ambiguity, own your work end-to-end, and move fast without waiting for permission.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of backend scalability — design, build, and maintain services and systems that perform reliably at scale.
• Tune, iterate on, and optimize LLM integrations and AI agent orchestration pipelines to improve reliability, efficiency, and output quality.
• Collaborate closely with a fast-moving team, shipping meaningfully and often.
• Contribute to shaping engineering culture and technical direction as an early team member.

Skills

Backend engineering

LLM integration

AI agent workflows

Startup experience

Job description

About the Role

We're a fast-moving, early-stage startup operating in the AI-powered talent acquisition space, and we're hiring AI Engineers to tackle two of our most critical technical challenges: scaling our backend infrastructure and optimizing the LLM and AI agent flows that power our core product. You'll join a small, high-agency engineering team where your work has direct and immediate impact on platform performance and user experience.

We're looking to bring on 1–2 exceptionally strong, startup-motivated engineers who are passionate about building reliable, production-grade AI systems.

What You'll Do

• Take full ownership of backend scalability — design, build, and maintain services and systems that perform reliably at scale.

• Tune, iterate on, and optimize LLM integrations and AI agent orchestration pipelines to improve reliability, efficiency, and output quality.

• Collaborate closely with a fast-moving team, shipping meaningfully and often.

• Contribute to shaping engineering culture and technical direction as an early team member.

What We're Looking For

Requirements (dealbreakers):

• Based in Stockholm, or legally eligible to work and willing to relocate to Stockholm — no visa sponsorship available.

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience delivering scalable production systems.

• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs and optimizing AI agent workflows in live production environments.

Required skills & experience:

• Strong backend engineering fundamentals — you've built systems that scale and you've felt the pain of when they don't.

• Practical experience shipping AI-driven features in production; you understand the nuances of LLM reliability and performance tuning.

• Startup experience — you're comfortable with ambiguity, own your work end-to-end, and move fast without waiting for permission.

Nice to have:

• A strong portfolio of side projects that demonstrates technical depth and sustained curiosity.

• Experience building AI-driven features in a consumer or marketplace product context.

• Background in fast-growing early-stage startups (pre-seed through Series A/B).

We value demonstrated ownership and high agency over formal credentials. A track record of consistently shipping software over time matters more to us than where you studied.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $80,000 – $120,000 USD (with flexibility for exceptionally senior candidates)

• Equity: Included; salary/equity mix is negotiable

Location

• Stockholm, Sweden — on-site

• Candidates must be eligible to work in Sweden; visa sponsorship is not available