Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$120k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own significant portions of the product from user insight through production deployment.
  • Build and continuously improve agentic systems, including context engineering, tool use, and agent architectures.
  • Talk directly with users, understand their pain points, and scope features that solve real problems.
  • Ship full-stack features using Go backend and React/Vite frontend development as needed.
  • Use AI-first development practices, coding agents, and automation to increase productivity.
  • Review code quickly and maintain high standards across the codebase.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of hands-on product engineering experience with a track record of shipping from scratch.
  • Strong Go backend engineering skills and a commitment to clean, maintainable code.
  • Full-stack capability, including React/Vite frontend development.
  • Demonstrated experience building AI products, ideally agentic systems or AI-assisted tooling.
  • Active experience using AI-first development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar coding agents.
  • Exceptional autonomy and product sense, including the ability to scope ambiguous problems and ship independently.
  • Experience building something from scratch, such as a startup, significant side project, or zero-to-one feature.
  • Former founder experience, an AI research background, or experience at an AI tooling or coding startup is preferred.

Benefits

  • Salary of $120,000 to $250,000 per year.
  • Generous equity reflecting the founding-level impact of the role.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
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