Why This Role Stands Out
This Lead AI Engineer role at Clera offers a unique opportunity to build the core infrastructure powering autonomous AI agents, directly impacting a cutting-edge procurement technology product. You'll thrive here if you have a strong software engineering background and a passion for turning AI advancements into reliable, scalable capabilities. Apply to shape the future of AI in a dynamic and innovative environment.
Quick Overview
Job Description
About the Role
As Lead AI Engineer, you will own the platform that makes AI agents capable, reliable, and increasingly autonomous. Working closely with technical and product teams, you will turn advances in AI into dependable capabilities for a procurement technology product.
What You'll Do
Build agent orchestration, context management, memory, and programmatic tool-calling systems.
Enable agents to perform real work through sandboxed code execution and permission-aware data access.
Develop evaluations that measure quality across multi-turn workflows and help investigate failures.
Integrate models and build inference infrastructure to make AI systems practical at scale.
Create shared foundations that help product engineers build and ship agent capabilities.
Lead through sound technical decisions, hands-on implementation, and support for other engineers.
What We're Looking For
At least 5 years of relevant engineering experience, including shipping LLM-powered systems used by real customers and owning them after launch.
Strong software engineering fundamentals and hands-on TypeScript experience; Python experience is useful.
Practical experience with agent orchestration, tool calling, and context management.
Experience with sandboxed execution, inference infrastructure, or similarly demanding production systems.
Ability to distinguish compelling demos from dependable systems through thoughtful evaluations.
Procurement technology experience is helpful but not required.
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive salary and meaningful equity are offered. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
This is an on-site role in Berlin, Germany.