CLEAR

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ForwardDeployedAIEngineerII

$180–230k New York, New York, United States
The Brief

“Forward Deployed AI Engineer II at CLEAR. Skills: AI-powered systems, LLM applications, RAG workflows, automation tools, responsible AI best practices, prompt management, retrieval, tool use, evals, guardrails, human-in-the-loop workflows. 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.

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Problems you'll solve

understand ambiguous workflows and turn them into usable AI products; identify practical, high-ROI AI use cases

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4+ 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

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

ownership from idea to impact, discovery and evaluation through launch, monitoring, and iteration, Speed from AI opportunity identification to prototype, pilot, and production launch

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