Clera

Founding Engineer, Agents

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Base Salary

$150k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build autonomous agents that sustain execution toward goals over weeks without continuous human intervention.
  • Design memory systems that allow agents to retain and build on knowledge over time.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks comparing agent performance with human-level baselines.
  • Improve agent reliability and reduce the need for human review of each run.
  • Own core agent systems and evaluations as part of an early-stage AI team.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience building dependable agents and understanding their current failure modes.
  • Experience developing memory systems, long-running execution capabilities, or multi-step reasoning systems that maintain goals over time.
  • A track record of building evaluation frameworks that inform real decisions and compare agent performance with human baselines.
  • Published research that others build on or software shipped at meaningful scale.
  • Background in competitive math, programming, debate, games, founding, or participation in a leading accelerator.
  • A collaborative and kind approach, including during difficult work.

Benefits

  • Base salary range of $150,000 to $300,000 annually.
  • On-site work five days per week in San Francisco, California.

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