Clera

Founding Software Engineer

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5 days ago
Munich, GermanyMid Level

Base Salary

$100k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build experiment orchestration systems that schedule and coordinate experiments across distributed labs.
  • Connect AI agents to real-world instruments and experiments through robust agent infrastructure.
  • Design and implement data infrastructure for experiment state, actions, measurements, failures, and provenance.
  • Architect distributed systems coordinating software, devices, and experiments at scale.
  • Develop developer tooling and APIs for new workflows and integrations.
  • Debug and optimize across software, hardware, firmware, and physical systems.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience building complex, production-grade software systems end-to-end.
  • Strong proficiency in Rust or TypeScript.
  • Deep understanding of distributed systems, APIs, networking, and asynchronous programming.
  • Experience building orchestration or scheduling systems coordinating concurrent processes or devices.
  • Experience building data infrastructure capturing state, events, and provenance at scale.
  • Experience building developer tooling, SDKs, or APIs for integration workflows.
  • Comfort debugging and integrating across hardware, firmware, and software layers in production.
  • High agency and ownership in ambiguous, early-stage environments.
  • Experience with robotics, hardware integration, lab automation, embedded systems, or ML infrastructure is a strong plus.
  • No biology experience is required.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $100,000 to $200,000 USD annually plus equity.
  • On-site work in Munich, Germany, with additional offices in Zurich, Switzerland and San Francisco, USA.

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