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Senior Software Engineer

Clera

On-siteSan Francisco, CAsenior$130kโ€“$220kPosted 14h ago

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an engineering team building AI software for hospitality operations. You will own full-stack components of an AI system that handles guest requests, from understanding intent and retrieving relevant information to coordinating tools and generating responses.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Design and build systems that classify guest requests, assemble context, select tools, and decide when to respond or escalate.

  • Develop retrieval pipelines that ground responses in accurate and current customer information.

  • Build reliable orchestration for multi-step workflows, including handling third-party API failures during conversations.

  • Create evaluation frameworks to assess response quality and catch regressions before release.

  • Implement observability and tracing that help support teams understand system behavior.

  • Build controls that let non-technical teams adjust agent behavior without writing code.

  • Extend agent capabilities to voice conversations with real-time transcription and tool use.

  • Improve performance and cost through model routing, caching, and prompt refinement.

  • Contribute to infrastructure, data pipelines, integrations, and APIs.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including 3 or more years building production systems used by real people.

  • Experience designing and debugging production AI or ML systems, including retrieval pipelines, prompt engineering, or model orchestration.

  • Proficiency across multiple areas of the stack, such as backend, frontend, infrastructure, or data pipelines.

  • Experience building and evaluating retrieval systems, multi-step workflows, and production observability or evaluation tools.

  • Proficiency in a backend language such as Python, Go, Rust, Java, or a similar language, plus experience integrating third-party APIs.

  • Strong judgment in selecting AI models and measuring system quality, reliability, latency, and cost.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary: $130,000 to $220,000 annually, plus 0.20% to 1.20% equity, health insurance, and a 401(k) match. Visa sponsorship is not available.

LOCATION

On-site in San Francisco, California.