Clera

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Partner with revenue and operations leaders to identify valuable business problems and define objectives.
  • Onboard customers end to end by scoping data access and mapping undocumented warehouse schemas to business concepts.
  • Interview data and business teams to establish ontologies and resolve conflicting definitions.
  • Build customer-facing signals, workflows, and agent systems, then diagnose and improve failures.
  • Define success measures, analyze evidence of business impact, and communicate customer outcomes.
  • Create reusable validation frameworks, evaluation tools, and data-mapping workflows from deployment lessons.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience in a technical, customer-facing role such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or software engineering with substantial customer exposure.
  • Strong SQL and dbt skills, including the ability to navigate undocumented data warehouses and investigate inconsistent data.
  • Experience clarifying conflicting business definitions through interviews and validation.
  • Applied data science knowledge including distributions, seasonality, validation design, and calibration.
  • Experience building custom agent setups beyond default implementations and improving agent-driven workflows.
  • Experience defining success metrics and building analytical cases demonstrating customer outcomes.
  • Evidence-driven problem-solving, comfort with ambiguity, and willingness to own work from discovery through delivery; founder experience is valued.

Benefits

  • Salary range is $180,000 to $250,000 USD annually.
  • On-site in New York City, New York, United States.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

Tech Stack

dbtSQL

Categories

Forward Deployed
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