Clera

Founding Engineer, Agents

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7 hours 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 human intervention.
  • Design memory systems that help agents retain knowledge and improve over time.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks comparing agent performance against human-level baselines.
  • Own core agent systems covering execution, memory, evaluations, and reliability.
  • Improve agent reliability and reduce the need for human review of agent runs.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience building production agents that people rely on and understanding their failure modes.
  • At least 1 to 2 years of experience at a fast-growing or AI-focused startup.
  • Experience with agent memory, long-running execution, multi-step reasoning, or systems that maintain goals over time.
  • A track record of building evaluations that inform real decisions, including comparisons against human-level baselines.
  • Substantive engineering work demonstrated through published research others build on or software shipped at meaningful scale.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals.
  • Agent architecture experience and backgrounds in competitive math, programming, debate, or games are beneficial.
  • A degree from a highly selective institution or an equivalent credential, such as founding a company, is valued.

Benefits

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

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