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Staff Applied AI Engineer

Klarity

Klarity

Software Engineering, Data Science
San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Aug 22, 2025

Experience: 7+ years

Location: San-Francisco (relocation bonus available)

Job Type: Full-time

About Klarity

Klarity (YC S18) automates Unstructured-Document workflows using GenAI. Our vision is a future of Exponential Organizations - companies that can hyper-scale without vast operational teams of humans reading documents.

Our customers include companies like Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, DoorDash, and Zoom. They use Klarity to 1) save time and money, 2) reduce compliance risk, and 3) speed up manual contract review. But talk is cheap, so try our demo!

We found strong Product Market Fit in 2020 and just raised a $70m Series B in June 2024. We are looking to add a brilliant, entrepreneurial Staff Applied AI Engineer to the team!

Our Gen AI journey:

Founded in 2017, we shipped multiple NLP/ML product iterations pre-chatGPT. In 2023 we rebuilt our core AI platform using GenAI.

We’re not your average Gen AI startup, gradually layering LLMs on. We’re all in. We have more than 15 unique LLM use-cases in production with 10+ LLMs under the hood. We have shipped multiple first-of-its-kind customer experiences including video workflow analysis, natural language analytics, complex table parsing, and table-matching. To date, we have processed 600,000+ documents through our GenAI platform.

You will enjoy this role if:

  1. You tinker: you embracing AI mindset and constantly seek AI technologies to solve different problems

  2. You are obsessed with AI and frequently spend your free-time thinking about how AI will change the world.

  3. Growth mindset: You will seek out uncomfortable experiences in service of your own growth.

  4. You’re seeking a culture of breakneck iteration and constant change. We shipped this demo < 12 hours after the GPT-4 launch :)

  5. You thrive in finding creative solutions to ambiguous problem statements, rather than wanting to “stay in your lane”.

  6. You’re not indexing on work-life balance; You prefer an environment of like minded, ultra-committed, live-and-breath AI people.

  7. You enjoy close collaboration, care about people and want to build strong bonding with your teammates.

In this role, you will:

  • Conduct high-velocity experiments applying AI techniques to document-understanding tasks, aiming to develop innovative solutions

  • Continuously research and integrate the latest applied AI techniques to ensure Klarity remains at the forefront of technology

  • Work on applying existing AI models and techniques to solve real-world problems, rather than conducting original research or training new LLMs

  • Build, Ship and own the product features powered by GenAI - end-to-end.

  • Collaborate with the broader technical team to scale and deploy successful experiments for 1-10 rollout

Preferred qualifications:

  • Familiarity with various GenAI methods, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Vision LLMs, small LLMs, and embeddings

  • Proven track record of quickly iterating on AI experiments and adapting to new findings and challenges

  • Ability to navigate and find solutions in technically ambiguous situations

  • Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn and apply the latest state-of-the-art AI techniques

Benefits:

  • Equity in addition to competitive cash compensation

  • 100% Employer-Paid Medical, Dental & Vision options!

  • Paid Parental Leave

  • $500 Annual Learning Fund

  • $100 Monthly Wellness Fund

  • 401k via Betterment

  • Relocation support to San Francisco Bay Area (where applicable)

  • Office-related Perks:

    • BART or Caltrain to the office?: Contribute pre-tax funds to a Parking & Transit account, and you will never be taxed for it!

    • Lunchtime, Leveled Up: Enjoy curated local eats from Forkable.

    • Snack Central: Drinks and snacks for every craving- from healthy bites to Klarity team favorites.

    • Onsite Gym Access: A state-of-the-art fitness center right downstairs—and it’s free!

    • Safe & Secure Bike Room: Commute in and safely store your bike.

Join Klarity and be part of a team that is pushing the boundaries of AI and transforming how companies handle unstructured documents.

Check out demos of our two primary products below to get a sense for what we're building!

Klarity is an equal opportunity employer. Klarity provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, marital status or veteran status.

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