Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$150k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement architecture integrating AI agents with CAD, CAE, PLM tools, and historical engineering data.
  • Own end-to-end software delivery, including design decisions, production readiness, observability, testing, and on-call operations.
  • Deploy production AI workflows into live customer programs.
  • Build evaluation and training loops using simulations, data, and real-world feedback, including physics-informed reinforcement learning.
  • Collaborate with customer-site engineers to identify failure points and translate findings into platform capabilities.
  • Influence the product roadmap and build reliable, scalable features for engineering programs.
  • Scale the platform across multiple operating companies and mentor a small team.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of experience shipping production software used by real customers.
  • Proven experience shipping AI in production and building evaluation suites for LLM-based workflows.
  • Strong Python and backend or ML systems engineering skills.
  • Ability to select among retrieval, fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and traditional software approaches.
  • Experience in frontier or applied AI, physical-world AI, industrial software, simulation, CAD, CAE, EDA, or related domains.
  • Strong cross-functional communication skills and the ability to build trust with engineers and customers.
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites and operating companies as needed.
  • Comfort working hands-on in a high-standards founding environment with a bias toward execution.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of 150,000 to 220,000 USD.
  • Onsite role based in New York City.
  • Travel to customer sites and operating companies as needed.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
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