AI Engineer - Clara (Remote, Colombia)
💰 $80,000 – $130,000/yr
Job Description
About Clara
Clara is the fastest-growing fintech company in Latin America, building the leading solution for companies to make and manage all their payments. With over 20,000 large and growing businesses relying on Clara's platform, we provide locally issued corporate cards, bill pay, financing, and a powerful B2B platform built for scale. Backed by top-tier investors including Monashees, Kaszek, Canary, Notable Capital, Coatue, DST Global Partners, ICONIQ Growth, General Catalyst, Citi Ventures, SV Angel, and Goldman Sachs, we're reshaping financial infrastructure across the Americas.
The Role
Clara's Innovation Team is seeking a pragmatic, fast-moving AI Engineer who thrives on shipping AI-powered features quickly. This team operates in ultra-fast mode, identifying opportunities, building prototypes, and delivering production-ready AI solutions that create immediate business value. You'll work at the intersection of product, engineering, and AI—turning ideas into deployed features in weeks, not months. This is an opportunity to accelerate your career while doing some of the best work of your life alongside a passionate, distributed team across the Americas.
Core Responsibilities
Rapid AI Product Development
- Design, build, and deploy AI-powered features and applications from 0 to 1 in production
- Integrate Large Language Models (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
- Implement monitoring, logging, and observability for AI systems in production
- Optimize model inference for latency and cost, balancing accuracy with speed
- Design scalable architectures that handle variable loads and ensure reliability
Cross-functional Collaboration
- Partner closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand customer needs and translate them into AI solutions
- Contribute to technical strategy and best practices for AI/ML within the organization
- Share knowledge and mentor teammates on AI implementation patterns and production-ready practices
What We're Looking For
- Proven ability to build and ship AI/ML features in production environments
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience in backend development, APIs, and system design
- Hands-on experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, and AI frameworks
- Comfort working with Python, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), and containerization
- Pragmatic mindset: you optimize for speed and impact, not perfection
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in distributed, fast-paced teams
- Experience building financial or enterprise software is a plus
Join Clara and help build the financial infrastructure powering the next generation of high-performing organizations across Latin America and beyond.
💰 Compensation not publicly listed. Market estimate for similar roles: from $80K, varying by experience and location.