Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Rebuild and scale the existing product into infrastructure capable of supporting substantial user growth.
  • Design and operate the AI agent runtime, including orchestration, memory, verification, and reliability systems.
  • Build backend, infrastructure, frontend, and AI agent capabilities from design through production.
  • Set technical architecture, engineering standards, and development practices as the first engineer.
  • Ship regular product improvements to customers operating real businesses.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of experience shipping production software, or an equivalent record as a founder, solo builder, or exceptional early-career engineer.
  • Full-stack experience across backend, infrastructure, and user-facing product development with independent technical decision-making ability.
  • Hands-on experience building and operating LLM or AI agent systems used by real customers rather than only prototypes or demos.
  • Experience taking a working product or prototype to reliable production infrastructure, including architecture, data models, runtime, or orchestration.
  • Strong generalist engineering skills and the ability to explain the technical challenges behind systems built.
  • Experience with agent orchestration, memory, evaluations, verification, or multi-agent workflows is valuable.
  • Experience with service businesses such as recruiting or agencies is useful.

Benefits

  • Meaningful founding equity.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • Relocation support is available.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California, with the team working together in person.
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