Clera

Founding Agentic Engineer

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8 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
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Base Salary

$150k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the agent layer end-to-end, including context engineering, self-learning systems, evaluations, harnesses, and meta-harnesses.
  • Build knowledge bases that improve future system integrations through accumulated knowledge.
  • Design and ship self-healing workflows that detect, diagnose, and autonomously recover from production failures.
  • Build and maintain tooling for creating, evaluating, and evolving agents rapidly.
  • Establish engineering patterns for building and measuring agentic systems across the organization.
  • Help hire and grow the team responsible for agentic systems while partnering directly with the CTO and founders.

Requirements

  • 2 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong computer science or quantitative foundation.
  • Hands-on experience building agentic software within the last year.
  • Experience building context or self-learning systems that improve agent performance from accumulated knowledge.
  • Experience with autonomous failure detection, diagnosis, or self-healing production workflows.
  • Deep familiarity with agent tracing, evaluations, and eval-driven iteration.
  • Experience building reusable agent harnesses or meta-harnesses.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript and experience with PostgreSQL and LLMs in production.
  • Early-stage startup experience as a founder or engineer at a well-backed seed or Series A company.
  • Focus on shipping working systems and implementation engineering rather than research.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $150,000 to $300,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic path.
  • On-site in San Francisco, California five days per week.
  • US-based candidates with a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco may be considered.
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