Member of Technical Staff

CleraSan Francisco, CA
$200,000 - $400,000Onsite

About The Position

We are an early-stage AI and robotics company (Series A/B equivalent, 11–50 people) tackling some of the hardest open problems in artificial intelligence — the kind where existing solutions simply don't exist yet. Our work spans custom database and memory systems, real-time LLM token state management, custom Unix OS distributions for human-AI interaction, and UX paradigms grounded in organizational behavior and human psychology. We're looking for a Member of Technical Staff who is obsessed with technically difficult, overlooked problems and who can build large, complex, and maintainable systems at an extraordinary pace. This is a high-ownership, high-impact role at the frontier of AI infrastructure and systems engineering. Visa sponsorship is available.

Requirements

  • A genuine obsession with novel, technically difficult, or overlooked problems.
  • Demonstrated ability to build large, complex, and maintainable systems in roughly one-third the time most engineers would estimate — speed and quality, not one or the other.
  • Experience with one or more of: TypeScript, Rust, Python, graph databases, or flexible data pipelines.
  • Outlier technical ability — evidenced by a top academic background, exceptional open-source work, or a strong track record of outstanding engineering.

Nice To Haves

  • Familiarity with graph databases, ontological modelling, and flexible data pipeline architectures.
  • Interest in and comfort applying insights from psychology and organizational behavior to product and UX decisions.
  • Experience with compounding micro-optimizations in performance-critical systems.
  • Background in distributed systems, AI infrastructure, or systems-level programming.

Responsibilities

  • Solve novel, hard technical problems that lack existing solutions to push the frontier of AI forward.
  • Design and build custom database and memory systems tailored to advanced AI workloads.
  • Implement real-time LLM token state management at large scale.
  • Develop custom Unix OS distributions optimized for human-AI interaction.
  • Rethink product UX informed by organizational behavior and human psychology fundamentals.
  • Contribute to mechanistic interpretability research to better understand and control AI models.
  • Work closely with a small, highly technical team in a hands-on, ownership-driven environment.

Benefits

  • Cash compensation: $200,000 – $400,000 annually
  • Equity: Meaningful variable equity package
  • Visa sponsorship available
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