# Founding AI Engineer

- Company: [Clera](<https://jobstar.asia/company/clera>)
- Location: Amsterdam
- Team: Engineering
- Employment type: Full Time
- Salary: $225K – $255K
- Posted: September 10, 2026

## Job description

### About the Role

This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage B2B SaaS pricing platform, where you will own the evaluation systems, feedback loops, and LLM infrastructure that connect model outputs directly to revenue and compliance outcomes. You will join a small, product-focused team shipping to customers, and your work will sit at the intersection of AI reliability and high-stakes pricing decisions.

### What You'll Do

* Build eval harnesses and benchmarks that use tracked pricing outcomes as ground truth for model quality.
* Systematize and automate expert review workflows that are currently done manually.
* Develop AI personas that simulate B2B buying committees and behavioral effects using usage data and call transcripts.
* Automate persona training pipelines that are today managed by hand.
* Own LLM routing across providers (Anthropic, Google, and others) with explicit cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs.
* Maintain infrastructure and data residency boundaries, such as ensuring EU model calls remain within the EU.
* Extend the MCP server used by LLM agents so that features are agent-driven, not just UI-driven.
* Work within a typed ontology of pricing entities to keep model outputs structured and auditable.
* Identify and remediate systemic latency, data drift, and cold-start issues in the pricing loop.

### What We're Looking For

* 8 or more years of engineering experience with strong, recent, production-grade 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 owning LLM infrastructure and routing across multiple models with explicit cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs.
* Comfort working with structured data models and typed ontologies (for example, Pydantic models for pricing entities) to ensure auditable outputs.
* Familiarity with MCP or building tools for LLM agents, and platforms such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, Braintrust, or OpenRouter.
* Experience operating under data residency, SOC2, and GDPR constraints, ideally in pricing, billing, or payments domains.
* Strong ability to communicate about non-deterministic systems clearly to clients and non-technical stakeholders.
* Must be authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available.

### Compensation & Benefits

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

### Location

This role is on-site in **Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.** Candidates must be based in Amsterdam or willing to relocate.

## Apply

[Apply on Clera](<https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/53bf8c8b-09a4-4cef-a529-a7841ecbf572>)

Canonical job page: <https://jobstar.asia/job/founding-ai-engineer-clera-amsterdam-70c1c9cb0ea46ab0>
