Forward Deployed AI Engineer II

CLEAR· New York, USA

Posted November 9, 2026

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Experience
2+ years
Pay
$180K – $220K per year
Education
Not specified
Location
New York, USA
Work mode
On-site
Job type
Full-time

About this role

CLEAR is a secure identity company with over 43 million members. This role builds and launches AI systems for internal workflows and customer products, working directly with business teams from idea to production.

What you will do

  • Find and build AI use cases for internal tools and customer features
  • Work with Product, Engineering, Data, Security, Legal and Operations
  • Prototype AI agents, LLM apps and RAG workflows
  • Take AI use cases to production with testing, monitoring and fallbacks
  • Build reusable patterns for prompts, retrieval, tools, evals and guardrails
  • Apply responsible AI practices for privacy and security
  • Measure the impact of AI work

What the employer expects

  • 2+ years in software, AI, ML or data engineering
  • Hands-on work with LLMs, agents, RAG or model APIs
  • Strong Python or another backend language
  • Experience running production systems with APIs, cloud and monitoring
  • Can turn unclear business workflows into AI products
  • Understands evals, guardrails, privacy and model governance
  • Can explain technical ideas to non-technical people
  • 5 days a week in the NYC office

Benefits

  • Healthcare plans
  • Family-building benefits
  • Flexible time off
  • Annual wellness stipend
  • Free OneMedical membership
  • CLEAR Plus membership
  • 401(k) with employer match
  • Daily catered lunches
  • Learning and development stipends

Skills

  • Python
  • LLMs
  • AI agents
  • RAG
  • Prompt engineering
  • APIs
  • Cloud infrastructure
  • Evals
  • Monitoring

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