AI Engineer (Engenheiro de IA)

About Clara

Clara is the fastest-growing fintech company in Latin America, revolutionizing how businesses manage payments and financial operations. With over 20,000 large and growing businesses relying on Clara's platform, we've built the leading solution for corporate financial management. Our offerings include locally issued corporate cards, bill pay, financing solutions, and a powerful B2B platform engineered for scale.

Backed by world-class investors including Monashees, Kaszek, Canary, Notable Capital, Coatue, DST Global Partners, ICONIQ Growth, General Catalyst, Citi Ventures, and Goldman Sachs, Clara is building the financial infrastructure powering high-performing organizations across the Americas.

The Role: AI Engineer

Clara's Innovation Team is seeking a pragmatic, fast-moving AI Engineer who thrives on shipping AI-powered features quickly. This role 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.

Core 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
• Ensure production-grade reliability, monitoring, and observability across AI systems
• Optimize costs and latency for AI workloads in production environments
• Implement proper logging, error handling, and alerting for AI-driven features

Collaboration & Impact

• Partner closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to understand customer needs and translate them into AI solutions
• Share learnings and best practices with the broader engineering team
• Contribute to architecture decisions that enable rapid experimentation and deployment

What We're Looking For

You're a pragmatic engineer who values shipping over perfection. You have hands-on experience building with LLMs and AI models, combined with solid backend engineering skills. You're comfortable making smart tradeoffs, moving fast in uncertain environments, and taking ownership of projects end-to-end. Your goal is delivering real business impact through AI, not optimizing for theoretical elegance.

Ideal candidates bring experience with Python, LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.), and modern backend frameworks. You've built production systems before and understand what it takes to keep them reliable. You thrive in fast-paced, high-autonomy environments and are energized by shipping features that users love.

💰 Compensation not publicly listed. Market estimate for similar roles: from $80K, varying by experience and location.