# Founding Machine Learning Engineer Source: https://realanalystjobs.com/job/founding-machine-learning-engineer-clera-55b4a0e1 Founding Machine Learning Engineer at Clera, an on-site role based in Munich, Germany. Experience level: 3 Years. Pay stated in the posting: $100K to $250K. Posted on 14 November 2026, read from Clera's own careers page (Ashby), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes. The posting says the employer will not sponsor a visa for this role. Updated 15 November 2026. ## Key facts - Company: [Clera](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/clera) - Location: Munich, Germany - Work mode: On-site - Pay stated in the posting: $100K to $250K - Posted: Nov 14, 2026 - Employment type: Full time - Experience level: 3 Years - Source: Clera's careers page (Ashby), re-checked daily Skills: [Python](https://realanalystjobs.com/skills/python) ## Visa sponsorship The posting says the employer will not sponsor a visa for this role. ## About this role About the Role As the founding machine learning engineer at an early-stage AI company, you will build the ML function from the ground up. You will shape post-training and agent systems, connecting research with reliable production infrastructure. What You'll Do • Structure, filter, and score experimental trajectories for training data pipelines. • Design and implement evaluations and benchmarks for model reasoning, planning, and experimental progress. • Build reliable agent environments, tool interfaces, observability systems, and replay infrastructure. • Establish validation and provenance tracking to support trajectory and data quality. • Set priorities for the ML roadmap, experiments, systems, and hiring. • Guide the technical direction of the ML team as it grows. What We're Looking For • At least 3 years of professional machine learning engineering experience building or delivering production ML systems. • Professional experience in post-training or model evaluations, including hands-on work structuring, filtering, and scoring training data. • Production software engineering experience with Python and systems-level programming for ML infrastructure. • Experience designing and implementing ML evaluation frameworks and benchmarks. • Strong knowledge of trajectory data, reward structures, tool use, and agent decision-making. • Experience building agent environments, replay and debugging tools, RL training systems, or data validation and observability infrastructure. • Reinforcement learning implementation and tuning experience is valuable, as is experience in frontier AI research or scaled post-training and evaluation teams. • Comfort owning priorities and working across research and production in an ambiguous environment. Compensation & Benefits Base salary: $100,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. Location On-site in Munich, Germany. Other listed locations include Zurich, Switzerland, and San Francisco, California; remote arrangements may be discussed. Description from Clera's public careers feed, reproduced so you can read the role here. Apply on the company's own site; Real Analyst Jobs never submits anything for you. ## How to apply Open [this role on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/founding-machine-learning-engineer-clera-55b4a0e1) and use Apply now there to reach the employer's application. The listing is re-checked against Clera's careers page daily and removed when it closes. ## Clera Analyst roles on Real Analyst Jobs. [More roles at Clera](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/clera) ## More like this - [Data analyst jobs in Germany](https://realanalystjobs.com/jobs/data-analyst-jobs-in-germany) - [Analyst job market report](https://realanalystjobs.com/analyst-job-market) - [What analyst roles pay](https://realanalystjobs.com/blog/data-analyst-salaries) ## Sources and links - [This role on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/founding-machine-learning-engineer-clera-55b4a0e1) - [Clera on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/clera) - [All analyst jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/jobs)