Clera

Founding Software Engineer

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Munich, GermanyMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$100k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build systems that schedule and coordinate experiments across distributed labs.
  • Connect AI agents to experiments and instruments through reliable infrastructure.
  • Develop data infrastructure capturing system state, actions, measurements, failures, and provenance.
  • Design distributed systems coordinating software, devices, and experiments reliably at scale.
  • Create developer tools and APIs for new workflows and integrations.
  • Debug and optimize across software, hardware, and physical systems.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience building production-grade software systems end to end, typically within a 3 to 8 year experience range.
  • Strong Python or Rust skills and experience building production backend or distributed systems at an early-stage startup.
  • Experience designing distributed systems involving APIs, networking, and asynchronous communication.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, high ownership, and comfort working through ambiguity.
  • Experience with robotics, hardware integration, physical AI, lab automation, embedded systems, ML infrastructure, or production ML systems is a plus.
  • Experience debugging across hardware, firmware, and software, or building data infrastructure, orchestration systems, developer tools, SDKs, or integration APIs is valuable.
  • Biology experience is not required.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $100,000 to $250,000 USD annually.
  • On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany; the role may also be based in Zurich, Switzerland, or San Francisco, United States.

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