Clera

Founding Engineer, NLP Systems & Infrastructure

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12 hours ago
Munich, GermanyStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own production architecture for orchestrated data and NLP pipelines, AI/ML integrations, CI/CD, observability, and cloud/on-premises deployment.
  • Drive the engineering roadmap while balancing speed, quality, security, and customer requirements.
  • Develop and validate the first production slice hands-on, including infrastructure and security design.
  • Hire, build, and manage the engineering team as the company scales.
  • Set architecture direction, enforce engineering standards, and foster a healthy team culture.
  • Collaborate with founders and users in an onsite team.

Requirements

  • Strong Python skills and production-quality engineering habits, including automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and data/model drift monitoring.
  • Production experience building and operating data-intensive or NLP systems involving ingestion, deduplication, entity resolution, asynchronous queue processing, and orchestrated pipelines.
  • Solid PostgreSQL experience plus experience with graph databases, vector stores, or search engines.
  • Experience with embeddings, vector search, and language-model integrations, including cost, versioning, and non-determinism management.
  • Ability to work across the full stack, including clean APIs and functional analyst-facing UIs using React, Vue, or similar technologies.
  • Willingness and eligibility to obtain a security clearance.
  • Prior early-stage startup experience and spoken and written German language skills.
  • Bonus experience acquiring and ingesting discourse data from platforms and the open web at scale, with awareness of legal and ethical constraints.
  • Bonus experience packaging systems for customer-hosted deployment using Docker and Kubernetes/Helm.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site role in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Tech Stack

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Data EngineeringML Engineering
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