Clera

AI/LLM Engineer

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About the role

About the Role
We're a fast-growing, Y Combinator–backed B2B SaaS startup building AI-powered automation for sales workflows in distribution and manufacturing. Our platform helps sales teams eliminate manual quoting and order processing by intelligently understanding customer requests, matching products, and integrating with enterprise ERP and CRM systems.
We're looking for an AI/LLM Engineer to join our small, high-velocity team in Munich. You'll own end-to-end AI systems — from data pipelines to deployed agents — and directly shape the product at a critical stage of our growth. Visa sponsorship is available.
What You'll Do
Design, build, deploy, and optimize AI agents across the full stack, end-to-end

Work with embeddings and fine-tune LLMs for classification and reranking tasks

Optimize algorithms for intelligent product search

Apply RLHF and DPO techniques to align LLMs with human feedback

Build and maintain data pipelines to process large-scale unstructured data efficiently

Contribute to backend scalability, stability, and performance improvements

What We're Looking For
Must-haves:
2+ years of software engineering experience

Strong hands-on experience with NLP, LLMs, embeddings, ML, and AI agents

Demonstrated experience building and scaling data and ML pipelines, including large-scale unstructured data

Experience with PostgreSQL and vector databases (e.g. Weaviate, Pinecone)

Strong computer science fundamentals

Ability and willingness to work on-site in Munich, Germany

Nice to have:
Full-stack development experience with React, TypeScript, and Next.js

Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS, Azure, and/or GCP) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)

Hands-on experience with RLHF and DPO for LLM alignment

Location
On-site in Munich, Germany

Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates

Compensation & Benefits
Salary: €90,000 – €200,000 per year, depending on experience

Opportunity to join a well-funded, early-stage team at a pivotal moment of growth

Work on high-impact AI problems in the enterprise software and automation space

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Role
Technology & IT CRM Javascript MySQL Sales remote

Likely questions

  1. Tell us about work you have done that is close to the AI/LLM Engineer role.
  2. How would you approach your first 30 days at Clera?
  3. Which of CRM, Javascript and MySQL have you used recently, and what did it help you achieve?
  4. Describe a time you solved a problem without waiting to be told exactly what to do.
  5. How do you stay organised and communicate clearly when working remotely?

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  • A recent example that proves your experience with CRM, Javascript and MySQL.
  • One short story with a problem, your action, and the result.
  • Two examples that show the strengths listed on your CV.
  • A clear reason why this role and company interest you.
  • Your availability, preferred work style, and salary expectations.

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  • What would success look like in the first 90 days?
  • What are the main problems this hire should help solve?
  • How does the team give feedback and measure good work?
  • What does a normal working week look like for this role?
Practice line

I am interested in the AI/LLM Engineer role because I can bring practical experience in CRM, Javascript and MySQL, learn the team quickly, and contribute to the outcomes Clera needs from this hire.

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