AI Engineer (Ingeniero de AI) - Mexico

About Clara

Clara is the fastest-growing fintech company in Latin America, building the leading financial infrastructure solution for businesses across the region. 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 designed for scale. Backed by top-tier investors including Monashees, Kaszek, Canary, Notable Capital, Coatue, DST Global Partners, ICONIQ Growth, General Catalyst, Citi Ventures, and Goldman Sachs, Clara is powering financial clarity and operational agility 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 is an ultra-fast-paced role where you'll identify opportunities, build prototypes, and deliver 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 concept to 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
• Develop scalable solutions that handle production traffic and maintain high reliability standards
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability for AI systems in production
• Optimize for cost and performance when working with LLM APIs and cloud infrastructure

Collaboration & Impact

• Work closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to align AI solutions with business objectives
• Communicate technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to cross-functional teams
• Contribute to establishing best practices for AI development and deployment within the organization
• Ship features that directly impact customer value and business metrics

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience building and shipping AI/ML applications or features in production environments
• Strong proficiency in Python and experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, etc.)
• Solid backend engineering skills: API design, databases, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Comfort with rapid iteration, pragmatic engineering decisions, and shipping MVPs
• Ability to balance speed with quality—knowing when to optimize and when to ship
• Experience with RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), fine-tuning, or other advanced AI techniques is a plus
• Fluency in Spanish and/or deep familiarity with Latin American business context is valuable

If you're excited about building AI features that matter, shipping fast, and working in a high-growth fintech environment, we'd love to hear from you.

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