Senior Member of Technical Staff
Company websitegetclera.com (Clera, opens in new tab)
Base salary $150K to $215K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA
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- LocationSan Francisco, CA
- WorkplaceOn-site
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (2 h ago) · observed since
About this job
About the Role
Join a small, early-stage team building AI-powered software for law enforcement and other public-sector investigative workflows. In this high-autonomy role, you will design and deploy secure systems that help teams search and analyze complex evidence.
What You'll Do
Build resilient, secure distributed systems for AI-driven evidence search and analysis.
Deploy large language models, vision models, and other machine learning systems in production settings.
Design retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and semantic search infrastructure for unstructured data.
Architect structured data systems, including query planning and semantic reasoning layers.
Develop or work with agentic systems that reason, plan, and take actions across investigative data.
Evaluate emerging AI models and infrastructure approaches, and drive solutions from idea through deployment.
What We're Looking For
At least 6 years of backend engineering experience building distributed systems, including experience in senior, staff, founding, or technical leadership roles.
Production experience deploying LLMs, vision models, or other machine learning systems.
Strong skills across multiple programming languages, including Python, and experience with React and multiple infrastructure providers.
Hands-on experience building RAG or similar pipelines for unstructured data, and systems for structured data such as query planning or semantic modeling.
Experience building secure, resilient systems and working in both established technology environments and early-stage startups.
Comfort with ambiguity, fast iteration, and taking ownership. Experience with agentic AI systems is a plus.
Authorization to work in the United States is required. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $150,000 to $215,000 annually. Equity is not specified.
Location
Hybrid role based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Source: Clera on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)
How this pay compares
Base floor $150,000. The employer's range is $65,000 wide, 43% of the floor. First observed today.
How Clera pays
48 of Clera's 98 live roles on this site list a higher base floor and 32 list a lower one. Across them the median floor is $150,000; the middle half runs from $130,000 to $180,000.
Base floors of Clera's 98 live roles
Table
| Floor band | Share | Roles |
|---|---|---|
| $100K to $125K | 12.2% | 12 |
| $125K to $150K | 20.4% | 20 |
| $150K to $175K | 30.6% | 30 |
| $175K to $200K | 22.4% | 22 |
| $200K to $225K | 9.2% | 9 |
| $225K to $250K | 3.1% | 3 |
| $250K to $275K | 2.0% | 2 |
How this is calculated
- Statistic
- Employer base floor distribution
- Formula
- count of the employer's open roles in each $25K band of published base floor / its open roles
- Denominator
- 98 open public roles at this employer
- Sample size
- 98
- Hidden when
- this employer has fewer than 5 roles
- Calculation version
- jobpage-analysis-v1
- Data as of
- current
- Employer set
- Open jobs on this site that publish a base salary of $100,000 or more
This listingSenior Member of Technical Staff$150K to $215K
Medical AI Researcher$150K to $230K
Head of Marketing$150K to $240K
Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)$150K to $200K
Founding Engineer$150K to $220K
Founding Member of Technical Staff$150K to $235K
Founding Account Executive$150K to $160K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Senior Member of Technical Staff (this listing) | $150K - $215K |
| Medical AI Researcher | $150K - $230K |
| Head of Marketing | $150K - $240K |
| Platform Engineer (Kubernetes) | $150K - $200K |
| Founding Engineer | $150K - $220K |
| Founding Member of Technical Staff | $150K - $235K |
| Founding Account Executive | $150K - $160K |
Observed changes
No changes to the pay or listing since we first observed this role on Nov 8, 2026 (today).
- First observed on the employer's board, already publishing a qualifying base salary
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-11-08
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco
Base salary: $150,000 to $215,000 annually. Equity is not specified.
- Method
- Employer text, read with fixed rules and re-verified
- Checked
- Rule set
- us-base-v2
The pay passage appears in the employer's own job text. Fixed, deterministic rules located it, and the passage below was checked against the stored copy of the posting.
What we verified
- The pay figures come from the employer's own listing, quoted exactly above.
- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
We do not verify what the employer will actually offer, whether the employer is still recruiting for the role, or anything beyond what the employer published. Full methodology.