Clera

Founding Engineer - Agentic (Senior)

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Base Salary

$150k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the agent layer end to end, including context, self-learning, evaluations, harnesses, and meta-harnesses.
  • Define patterns for building, measuring, and evolving agents across the platform.
  • Design autonomous failure detection, diagnosis, and self-healing production workflows.
  • Collaborate with leadership on hiring and growing the team responsible for agentic systems.
  • Work as a hands-on individual contributor and peer to the founders while driving experimentation and iteration.

Requirements

  • 2 to 9 years of relevant software engineering experience with strong computer science fundamentals.
  • Experience building context or self-learning systems that improve agent performance from accumulated knowledge.
  • Experience designing autonomous failure detection, diagnosis, or self-healing production workflows.
  • Built agentic software within the last year with a focus on implementation engineering and shipping working systems.
  • Background in harness-centric agent building, context engineering, and evaluation-driven iteration.
  • Deep understanding of agent tracing and evaluations.
  • Strong collaboration skills and ability to operate in a fast-moving, hands-on individual contributor role.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.
  • Onsite role in San Francisco, California.

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