Clay
Software Engineer, Applied AI
$170K–$300K
New York · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 14, 2026
- Experience
- No years specified.
About the job
Build and improve production AI agents and the shared infrastructure that makes them reliable for multi-step go-to-market workflows.
What you'll do
- Design agent workflows and evaluation systems; analyze production failures and improve reliability.
- Build agent infrastructure, including memory, tools, retrieval, guardrails, and shared evaluation frameworks.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to take agent features from prototype through general availability.
What they ask for
- Experience building or shipping production systems with LLMs or agents.
- Strong backend fundamentals in APIs, databases, and distributed systems.
- Experience with model or agent evaluation, including designing evaluations or measuring regressions.
- Systems-and-outcomes mindset, with comfort debugging real-world failures and iterating quickly.
Nice to have
- Experience with agent frameworks, tool-calling systems, retrieval architectures, or production LLM evaluation and fine-tuning.
- Experience with GTM, sales, or marketing workflows; familiarity with Clay's stack.
Pay
$170K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
React, TypeScript, Python, AWS, Aurora/Postgres, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, OpenSearch
AI focus
Build and evaluate production LLM agents for GTM workflows, plus agent platform infrastructure such as orchestration, memory, tools, retrieval, guardrails, and feedback loops.
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