Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer (Founding Customer Engineer)

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5 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level

Base Salary

$140k - $185k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own customer relationships from onboarding through ongoing success, including improving AI product-demo performance and driving adoption.
  • Teach and coach AI agents on product positioning, buyer personas, pricing conversations, and sales workflows.
  • Analyze conversation logs and customer feedback to identify patterns and provide insights to the product team.
  • Translate customer needs and feedback into actionable product feature requests with engineering and the CTO.
  • Build automation workflows and systems using scripting, APIs, and low-code/no-code tools to scale customer-facing work.
  • Define and document the customer engineering playbook from scratch.

Requirements

  • 0–3 years of experience in a customer-facing technical SaaS role such as solutions engineer, customer engineer, or technical account manager.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to lead product demos and customer onboarding sessions.
  • Hands-on experience building automation workflows using scripting, APIs, or low-code/no-code tools.
  • Experience analyzing customer feedback and conversation logs to identify patterns and inform product decisions.
  • Ability to work cross-functionally and translate customer needs into concrete product improvements.
  • Experience coaching or configuring AI agents for sales contexts is relevant; experience defining tiers, personas, and pricing conversations is a plus.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
  • Must be able to work on-site in San Francisco, California.

Benefits

  • $140,000–$185,000 USD annual base salary.
  • Early employee equity opportunity at a funded, early-stage AI startup.
  • On-site in San Francisco; remote and hybrid arrangements are not available.

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Forward Deployed
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