Senior Engineer, AI at Clark | NY, US | Rezi

Senior Engineer, AI at Clark

Senior Engineer, AI

Clark · NY, US

1 weeks ago

Senior Engineer, AI

Clark · NY, US

14 days ago
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About the Role

We are hiring Senior Engineers to grow the Ava team and build the AI systems that power Clark's core product. You will design and ship production AI systems that automate complex audit and accounting workflows, including LLM-powered agents, retrieval systems, document intelligence, evaluations, validation, and the infrastructure required to make AI reliable in high-trust environments. You will work closely with product engineers, Audit Engineers, customers, and company leadership to identify high-value workflows and build systems that can perform them accurately, securely, and at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve LLM-powered workflows within Ava
  • Design agentic systems for audit and accounting workflows
  • Improve retrieval, reasoning, evaluation, and reliability of AI outputs
  • Partner with Audit Engineers to understand real customer workflows
  • Create evaluations, monitoring, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop review systems
  • Build production systems that can operate in trust-sensitive environments
  • Improve prompt, tool-use, orchestration, and evaluation systems
  • Improve the accuracy, reliability, latency, and cost of production AI workflows
  • Collaborate with platform engineers on reliability and observability
  • Debug AI failure modes and improve system performance over time
  • Ship product features that directly impact customer adoption
  • Debug failures in live customer workflows and improve system performance over time
  • Help establish Clark’s technical standards for building safe and dependable AI systems

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Experience building production software systems
  • Strong backend or full-stack engineering fundamentals
  • Hands-on experience building applications with LLMs, agents, retrieval systems, or other modern AI models
  • Experience designing evaluations and improving AI-system performance using real production data
  • Comfortable working with probabilistic systems and designing around uncertainty and failure
  • Strong product judgment and an ability to identify the simplest system that delivers meaningful customer value
  • Comfortable working directly with domain experts and translating complex workflows into software
  • High ownership, strong communication, and excellent technical judgment
  • Excited to operate in person with a fast-moving, talent-dense team

Skills

  • LLMs
  • agents
  • retrieval systems
  • modern AI models
  • evaluations
  • backend engineering
  • full-stack engineering
  • prompt engineering
  • tool-use
  • orchestration
  • reliability
  • observability
  • debugging
  • AI failure modes
  • system performance
  • customer adoption
  • technical standards
  • safe AI systems
  • dependable AI systems
  • agent frameworks
  • evalls
  • tool-calling
  • fintech
  • compliance
  • accounting
  • audit
  • legaltech
  • trust-sensitive software
  • document-heavy workflows
  • startup experience

Location

  • NYC

Work Type

  • On-site
  • Startup hours and pace

Experience Level

  • Senior

Benefits

  • Unlimited PTO
  • Wellhub Platinum membership
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Free company dinner every day

About the Company

  • Clark is building the trust infrastructure for the AI economy.
  • We're starting with audit and accounting workflows—high-trust environments where reliability, accuracy, and security matter as much as productivity.
  • Our platform helps firms automate complex workflows, deploy AI safely, and modernize how audit teams operate.
  • Ava is Clark's AI agent for audit workflows.