Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own a product or infrastructure domain from architecture through daily production releases.
  • Speak with customers, synthesize feedback, and make product decisions without a dedicated product manager.
  • Build and optimize multimodal agents for voice, SMS, and email, including low-latency voice experiences and persistent conversation state.
  • Establish quality practices for non-deterministic systems, including evaluations, prompt versioning, guardrails, and drift detection.
  • Develop across React and Next.js frontends, Node.js backends, and Python services.

Requirements

  • Three to eight years of full-stack engineering experience and a record of shipping and scaling products from early development into broader use.
  • Production proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js, plus experience building Python services.
  • Hands-on experience shipping production systems with LLM APIs or agent SDKs.
  • Depth in at least one of production voice or SMS agents, long-running agent state and memory, agent evaluations and guardrails, or B2B2C and marketplace products.
  • Experience making independent product decisions, conducting customer discovery, and owning projects through launch.
  • Strong AI or agentic systems experience, including low-latency requirements and unpredictable system behavior.
  • Voice pipeline or evaluation tooling experience is useful.
  • Comfort working in an early-stage environment with changing priorities and limited process.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $180,000 to $250,000 annually.
  • On-site five days per week in New York, New York.
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