CLEAR

identity

ForwardDeployedAIEngineer

$110–160k New York, New York, United States
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Forward Deployed AI Engineer at CLEAR. Skills: AI-powered systems, AI adoption, LLM applications, RAG workflows, automation tools, responsible AI best practices. design, build, and deploy AI-powered systems. accelerate AI adoption across CLEAR’s internal workflows and customer-facing product experiences”

What You'll Achieve.

Number of high-impact internal and customer-facing AI use cases launched; Adoption and measurable business impact of AI-powered tools and features; Quality, reliability, latency, and safety of deployed AI systems; Reduction in manual work, operational cost, or customer support volume; Improvement in customer experience, containment, accuracy, or workflow efficiency; Percentage of AI use cases with clear owners, evals, monitoring, and governance controls; Speed from AI opportunity identification to prototype, pilot, and production launch

Industry & Context.

identity
Problems you'll solve

understand ambiguous workflows and turn them into usable AI products

Eligibility Requirements

remote_friendly: false

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

1+ years of experience in software engineering, AI engineering, machine learning engineering, data engineering, or related technical roles, Hands-on experience building with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, model APIs, prompt engineering, or AI application frameworks, programming skills in Python and/or another modern backend language, Experience building and deploying production systems with APIs, data platforms, cloud infrastructure, logging, monitoring, and testing, Ability to work directly with business teams to understand ambiguous workflows and turn them into usable AI products, product judgment and ability to identify practical, high-ROI AI use cases, Understanding of responsible AI concepts, including evals, guardrails, data privacy, security, human oversight, and model governance, Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical, non-technical, and executive stakeholders, Comfort operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with ownership from idea to impact, Passion for building AI systems that are practical, secure, measurable, and user-centric

Nice to Have

Kubernetes a plus

What You'll Do.

and deploy AI-powered systems

accelerate AI adoption across CLEAR’s internal workflows and customer-facing product experiences

partner directly with Product

and business teams to identify high-impact AI opportunities

rapidly prototype solutions

productionize reliable

and measurable AI systems

own use cases end-to-end

from discovery and evaluation through launch

and build AI use cases across internal tools

and customer-facing product features

and Operations to translate business needs into AI-driven solutions

Rapidly prototype AI agents

and product experiences

Productionize validated AI use cases with evaluation

and operational ownership

Build reusable patterns for prompt management

and human-in-the-loop workflows

Implement responsible AI best practices

and customer impact assessment

Measure and communicate AI impact across adoption

and business outcomes

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

partner directly with Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and business teams; Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Legal, Compliance, and Operations to translate business needs into AI-driven solutions

Communication Scope

Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to technical, non-technical, and executive stakeholders

Process & Methodology

own use cases end-to-end, from discovery and evaluation through launch, monitoring, and iteration, ownership from idea to impact

Full Job Description

CLEAR is building THE secure identity company of the future. Our mission is to make experiences safer and easier—physically and digitally. With more than 38 million Members and a growing network of partners across the world, CLEAR's secure identity platform is transforming the way people live, work, and travel. Whether it’s at the airport, stadium, or throughout your everyday life, CLEAR unlocks the magic of frictionless experiences. In this role, you will design, build, and deploy AI-powered systems that accelerate AI adoption across CLEAR’s internal workflows and customer-facing product experiences. This role will partner directly with Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and business teams to identify high-impact AI opportunities, rapidly prototype solutions, and productionize reliable, secure, and measurable AI systems. You will own use cases end-to-end, from discovery and evaluation through launch, monitoring, and iteration. What you’ll do: Discover, prioritize, and build AI use cases across internal tools, employee workflows, and customer-facing product features Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Legal, Compliance, and Operations to translate business needs into AI-driven solutions Rapidly prototype AI agents, LLM applications, RAG workflows, automation tools, and product experiences Productionize validated AI use cases with strong evaluation, monitoring, logging, fallback paths, and operational ownership Build reusable patterns for prompt management, retrieval, tool use, evals, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop workflows Implement responsible AI best practices, including privacy, security, model governance, risk review, and customer impact assessment Measure and communicate AI impact across adoption, quality, cost reduction, productivity, customer experience, and business outcomes How you’ll measure success: Number of high-impact internal and customer-facing AI use cases launched Adoption and measurable business

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