Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer

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San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$150k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own customer onboarding end to end, including integrations, tracing, failure detection, and initial pull requests.
  • Embed in customer communication channels and advise on agent architecture and failure modes.
  • Write detection logic, evaluations, and observability or monitoring code for production systems.
  • Open, defend, and merge pull requests in unfamiliar customer codebases.
  • Represent the company in security reviews, deployment architecture decisions, and customer trust discussions.
  • Generalize customer learnings into product improvements and reduce manual deployment work over time.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience shipping production software, including success in customer-facing roles such as forward deployment, solutions engineering, consulting, or founding a company.
  • Strong TypeScript proficiency and the ability to navigate and patch unfamiliar codebases.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying AI agents in production, including understanding their failure modes.
  • Experience writing detection logic, evaluations, and observability or monitoring code for production systems.
  • Ability to rapidly understand new systems, diagnose issues, and implement fixes with minimal ramp time.
  • Comfort working in ambiguous and unfamiliar organizations.
  • Prior experience running agents in production and handling production incidents is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $150,000 to $200,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site in San Francisco, California, with travel to customer sites as needed.
  • Reports directly to senior leadership on a small, focused team.

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