AI Innovation Engineer at Clara, focused on rapidly shipping AI features for the leading fintech in Latin America. Join a pragmatic team for impactful work in an innovative environment.
Responsibilities
Rapid AI Product Development: Design, build, and deploy AI-powered features and applications from 0 to 1 in production
Integrate LLMs and AI models into existing products and workflows, handling the full stack from API integration to user-facing features
Build intelligent automation tools that improve internal operations, customer experience, or business processes
Create MVPs and prototypes quickly to validate ideas, then iterate based on real usage and feedback
Own the entire lifecycle: scoping, technical design, implementation, deployment, and monitoring
Production Engineering & Infrastructure: Build robust APIs and backend services that power AI features with proper authentication, rate limiting, and error handling
Design and implement data pipelines that support AI applications: document processing, embedding generation, vector search
Deploy and maintain containerized applications on AWS infrastructure (ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS)
Implement monitoring, logging, and observability for AI features in production
Ensure AI applications meet security, privacy, and compliance requirements for financial services
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Innovation: Work closely with product teams, data scientists, and business stakeholders to identify high-impact AI opportunities
Translate business problems into technical solutions, making pragmatic decisions about build vs. buy vs. API
Share knowledge and evangelize successful patterns across engineering teams
Balance speed with sustainability—ship fast without creating technical debt that blocks future iteration
Contribute to the broader engineering organization by bringing innovation team learnings back to core teams
Continuous Learning & Experimentation: Stay current with rapidly evolving AI tools, frameworks, and best practices
Experiment with new AI capabilities and evaluate their potential for Clara's use cases
Share findings, demos, and insights with the broader team to inspire innovation
Requirements
Strong proficiency in Python; working knowledge of Node.js or Java
Hands-on experience integrating LLMs into production applications (not just prompt engineering)—you've built real features with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar APIs
Database expertise: PostgreSQL, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, pgvector), or data modeling
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