Clera

Founding Software Engineer

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23 hours ago
Munich, GermanyMid Level

Base Salary

$100k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build systems to schedule and coordinate experiments across distributed laboratories.
  • Connect AI agents to experiments and instruments through agent infrastructure.
  • Design data infrastructure that captures system state, actions, measurements, failures, and provenance.
  • Architect distributed systems coordinating software, devices, and experiments.
  • Develop APIs and developer tools for new workflows and integrations.
  • Debug and optimize systems across software, hardware, and physical environments.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience building production-grade software systems end to end.
  • Strong proficiency in Python or Rust and solid software engineering fundamentals.
  • Production backend or distributed-systems experience, including APIs, networking, and asynchronous communication.
  • Experience building software as an engineer at an early-stage startup.
  • Ability to take ownership in ambiguous environments and debug across software and hardware layers.
  • Experience with robotics, physical AI, hardware integration, lab automation, embedded systems, ML infrastructure, data infrastructure, or orchestration systems is a plus; biology experience is not required.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $100,000 to $250,000 USD annually.
  • On-site work in Munich, Germany; other listed work locations include Zurich, Switzerland, and San Francisco, United States.

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