Founding AI Engineer for Agentic Marketing

Clera Labs, Inc.

United States

On-site

USD 180,000 - 230,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Job summary

Okara, a San Francisco-based startup, is seeking its first senior AI hire to own the quality and intelligence of multi-channel marketing agents end to end. You will shape agent architecture, evaluation systems, and learning loops while building the AI team from the ground up to scale reliability across SEO, content, social, and search channels.

You will design evals, learn from outcome signals at scale, and improve AI infrastructure and data pipelines.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years building production ML or AI systems.
  • Experience designing evals and learning from outcome signals at scale.
  • Strong TypeScript (Next.js) and Python proficiency for data analysis, evals, and model work; you ship end to end.
  • Sharp judgment about output quality and the ability to make it measurable and actionable.
  • Ownership experience in a startup or small team environment.
  • Search or ranking experience, particularly with Google or AI answer engines.
  • Background from a leading AI lab or top research program.
  • Marketing or go-to-market experience is a plus; reinforcement learning experience also relevant.

Responsibilities

  • Improve agent output and content quality across channels with measurable evals.
  • Improve SEO and GEO performance.
  • Design feedback loops for learning from real-world results at scale.
  • Improve AI infrastructure, agent architecture, model strategy, and data pipelines.
  • Hire and lead the AI team as the organization grows.

Skills

TypeScript
Python
ML systems
Eval design
Startup ownership
Search/ranking

Education

PhD or equivalent in ML/CS

Tools

Next.js
Python tooling

Job description

Okara, a San Francisco-based startup, is seeking its first senior AI hire to own the quality and intelligence of multi-channel marketing agents end to end. You will shape agent architecture, evaluation systems, and learning loops while building the AI team from the ground up to scale reliability across SEO, content, social, and search channels.

You will design evals, learn from outcome signals at scale, and improve AI infrastructure and data pipelines.

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