Clera

Founding Engineer, Agents

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3 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
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Base Salary

$200k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build autonomous agents that pursue goals over multiple weeks with minimal or no human intervention.
  • Design memory systems that help agents retain knowledge and improve over time.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks that measure agent performance against human task baselines.
  • Improve agent reliability and reduce the need for human review.
  • Own core agent systems spanning execution, memory, and evaluation.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience building production agents and understanding their failure modes.
  • Experience with agent memory, long-running execution, or multi-step reasoning systems.
  • Experience creating evaluation frameworks that inform decisions and measure performance against human-level baselines.
  • At least 1 to 2 years of experience at a fast-growing or AI-focused startup.
  • A record of publishing research that others build on or shipping software at meaningful scale.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals; experience designing agent architectures is a plus.
  • Background in competitive math, programming, debate, games, founding, or an equivalent high-achievement path is valued.

Benefits

  • $200,000 to $300,000 annual base salary, with up to $350,000 for exceptional candidates.
  • Meaningful founding equity is offered.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week.

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