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Founding AI Engineer

Clera

Amsterdam
Full-time
10+ years experience
On-site

$225,000 - $255,000

Key Skills

LLM
Pricing Intelligence
B2B SaaS
Evaluation Harnesses
Observability
Prompt Engineering
Data Residency
SOC2
GDPR
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Braintrust
OpenRouter
Pydantic
Structured Data Models
MCP

Job Description

About the Role

This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage B2B SaaS pricing intelligence company, where you'll own the evaluation systems, feedback loops, and LLM infrastructure that connect model outputs directly to revenue and compliance outcomes. You'll join a small, product-focused team shipping to real customers — with meaningful influence over the technical direction of the AI platform from day one.

What You'll Do

  • Build eval harnesses and benchmarks using tracked pricing outcomes as ground truth for model quality.

  • Systematize and automate expert review workflows that are currently handled manually.

  • Develop AI personas that simulate B2B buying committees using usage data and call transcripts.

  • Automate persona training pipelines and reduce reliance on manual processes.

  • Own LLM routing across multiple providers with explicit cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs.

  • Maintain infrastructure and data residency boundaries (e.g., keeping EU model calls within the EU).

  • Extend the MCP server used by LLM agents so that features are agent-driven, not just UI-rendered.

  • Work within a typed ontology of pricing entities to ensure model outputs are structured and auditable.

  • Identify and remediate systemic latency, data drift, and cold-start issues in the pricing loop.

What We're Looking For

  • 8+ years of engineering experience with strong, recent production LLM depth.

  • Proven track record shipping and owning LLM-powered product features end-to-end — from development through production monitoring.

  • Hands-on experience building eval harnesses and observability for LLM systems, including baselining prompts against a typed ontology for release gating.

  • Experience with MCP or building tools for LLM agents; familiarity with platforms such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Braintrust, or OpenRouter is a plus.

  • Experience with structured data models and typed ontologies (e.g., Pydantic) to land model outputs in auditable, structured form.

  • Background operating under data residency, SOC2, and GDPR constraints — ideally in pricing, billing, or payments domains where accuracy is audited.

  • Strong communication skills to explain non-deterministic systems to clients, pricing experts, and non-technical stakeholders.

  • Comfortable with ambiguity and high ownership in a lean, fast-moving startup environment.

  • Must be authorized to work in the United States; visa sponsorship is not available.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $225,000 – $255,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Core Responsibilities

You will own the evaluation systems, feedback loops, and LLM infrastructure for a B2B SaaS pricing intelligence platform. Responsibilities include building eval harnesses, automating expert review workflows, and managing LLM routing with a focus on cost, latency, and compliance.

Requirements

The role requires 8+ years of engineering experience with a strong track record in production LLM systems and observability. Candidates must have experience with structured data models, data residency constraints, and the ability to work in a fast-moving startup environment.

About Clera

Industry: Technology, Information and Internet

Company size: 2-10 employees

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