CLEAR
Forward Deployed AI Engineer I
$130K–$150K
New York, NY, United States · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 0–2 years in software engineering, AI engineering, machine learning engineering, data engineering, or related technical roles.
About the job
Designs, builds, and deploys secure, measurable AI systems for CLEAR’s internal workflows and customer-facing products, owning use cases from discovery through ongoing improvement.
What you'll do
- Identify and prioritize AI opportunities, then prototype and launch agents, LLM applications, RAG workflows, automation tools, and product features.
- Productionize AI solutions with evaluation, monitoring, logging, fallback paths, and operational ownership; establish reusable AI development patterns.
- Partner with business and technical teams to apply responsible AI practices and measure adoption, quality, cost, productivity, and customer impact.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience building with LLMs, AI agents, RAG, model APIs, prompt engineering, or AI application frameworks.
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or another modern backend language.
- Some experience building and deploying production systems involving APIs, data platforms, cloud infrastructure, logging, monitoring, and testing.
- Knowledge of responsible AI concepts, including evaluation, guardrails, privacy, security, human oversight, and model governance.
Pay
USD 129,500 – USD 150,500 base salary
Tools
Python, LLMs, AI agents, RAG, model APIs
AI focus
Build and operationalize AI agents, LLM applications, retrieval workflows, and automation for internal workflows and customer-facing products, with evaluation, monitoring, governance, and safety controls.
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