Clera

Founding Engineer, Agentic Systems

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San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
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Base Salary

$150k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build context and self-learning systems that improve agent performance across integrations.
  • Develop self-healing workflows for production failure detection, diagnosis, and autonomous recovery.
  • Own the agent harness and meta-harness for building, evaluating, and evolving agents.
  • Establish engineering patterns for building, measuring, and improving agents across the platform.
  • Work with company leadership, experiment rapidly, and help grow the agentic systems engineering team.

Requirements

  • Two to nine years of professional software engineering experience with recent experience building agentic software.
  • Completed or in-progress engineering, computer science, or quantitative degree from a top-250 technical university; a top-50 university is strongly preferred.
  • Experience founding a startup that raised outside funding or hired a full-time employee, or working as an engineer at a pre-seed, seed, or Series A startup backed by a top-tier venture firm.
  • Hands-on experience with context engineering, reusable agent harnesses, agent tracing, evaluations, and production failure detection, diagnosis, or recovery.
  • Experience shipping production systems rather than research alone.
  • Familiarity with TypeScript, Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, LLMs, and agent evaluation.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week; US-based candidates elsewhere must have a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco.
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