Clera

Agent Engineer

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3 days ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior

Responsibilities

  • Explore agent technology advances and identify opportunities to solve user problems.
  • Translate model capabilities into reliable, reusable skills and workflows.
  • Build and evolve Python agent systems with orchestration, context management, retries, and error recovery.
  • Design integrations with business software including email, calendars, messaging, browsers, documents, and CRMs.
  • Own capabilities across Python services, Django, APIs, React interfaces, data models, background jobs, and production operations.
  • Create platform abstractions that make capabilities easier to compose, extend, and maintain.
  • Improve latency, cost, reliability, and safety in high-volume agent execution.
  • Use evaluations, production traces, and user feedback to identify and fix quality issues.
  • Set technical direction for ambiguous problems and contribute to design reviews.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience building and operating production software systems end to end.
  • Strong Python skills and experience with Django, APIs, React, and TypeScript.
  • Hands-on experience with agent systems, including planning, tool calling, structured outputs, context and state management, retries, and orchestration.
  • Experience building external API and business software integrations.
  • Ability to turn loosely defined user needs into clear product capabilities and reusable system abstractions.
  • Experience debugging prompts, model outputs, application code, databases, and APIs, and using production signals to guide improvements.
  • A degree from a strong engineering program.
  • Startup experience or a demonstrated record of career progression.
  • Experience with LLMs, model evaluation, prompt engineering in production, or distributed-systems optimization for latency, cost, and reliability is valuable.

Benefits

  • On-site work in Palo Alto, United States.
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