Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer

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4 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$150k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end customer deployments from integration through first traces, failure detection, and merged pull requests.
  • Embed in customer Slack channels and advise on agent architectures and failure modes.
  • Write customer-specific detection logic, evaluations, and observability or monitoring code, then generalize recurring patterns.
  • Open and defend pull requests against unfamiliar codebases.
  • Represent the company in security reviews, deployment architecture decisions, and customer trust discussions.
  • Feed customer learnings back into the product to reduce manual work over time.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience shipping production software and demonstrated success working directly with customers in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, consulting, or founding capacity.
  • Strong TypeScript proficiency and comfort reading, patching, and opening pull requests in unfamiliar codebases.
  • Hands-on experience building and running AI agents in production, including learning from production failures or incidents.
  • Experience writing detection logic, evaluations, and observability or monitoring code for production systems.
  • Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar organizations and identify critical issues.
  • Comfort with ambiguity, fast execution, security reviews, and deployment architecture discussions.
  • Experience with security reviews and deployment architecture is preferred, and prior experience operating production agents is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site in San Francisco, California six days per week.
  • Travel to customer sites is required.

Tech Stack

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Forward Deployed
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