Clera

Founding Engineer, Environments + Data

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21 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level

Base Salary

$200k - $350k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design synthetic company environments with realistic email, records, and files for AI agents.
  • Build robust graders and evaluation systems for advanced AI agents.
  • Develop benchmarks correlated with real-world production performance.
  • Identify and resolve evaluation failures, reward hacking, and benchmark gaming.
  • Simulate software systems such as inboxes and CRMs that can withstand agent tool calls at scale.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with synthetic data pipelines, benchmarks, evaluations, or post-training.
  • Experience building environments or benchmarks used to train or evaluate agents at advanced AI labs.
  • Experience implementing graders or evaluation systems.
  • At least 1 to 2 years at a fast-growing or AI-focused startup, including experience building synthetic environments or production-like simulations.
  • Ability to identify flaws in established benchmarks and detect and fix reward hacking in evaluation systems.
  • Strong academic or equivalent credentials, such as a top-tier university background, founding experience, or participation in a leading startup program.
  • High-level competition experience in mathematics, programming, debate, or games is valued.

Benefits

  • $200,000 to $300,000 annual base salary, with up to $350,000 for exceptional candidates.
  • Additional commission-style bonus of up to $200,000 or more tied to the value of delivered environments.
  • Meaningful founding equity.
  • On-site five days a week in San Francisco, California.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

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