Clera

Founding Engineer, Agentic Systems

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

$150k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build context and self-learning systems that improve agent performance through accumulated knowledge.
  • Develop self-healing workflows that detect production failures, diagnose causes, and recover autonomously.
  • Build and maintain agent harnesses and meta-harnesses for creating, evaluating, and evolving agents.
  • Establish patterns for agent context, tracing, evaluation, and iterative improvement across the product.
  • Collaborate with technical leadership, experiment rapidly, and help hire and grow the agent engineering team.

Requirements

  • Two to nine years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Completed or in-progress engineering, computer science, or quantitative degree from a strong technical university.
  • Recent experience building agentic software using a harness-centric approach to context engineering and evaluation-driven iteration.
  • Experience with context or self-learning systems, agent tracing and evaluations, and autonomous failure detection, diagnosis, or recovery workflows.
  • Record of shipping working software into production rather than research alone.
  • Experience building reusable agent harnesses is valuable.
  • Strong early-stage startup experience as a funded founder or engineer at a venture-backed pre-seed, seed, or Series A company.

Benefits

  • Base salary is $150,000 to $300,000 annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site in San Francisco, California.
  • Candidates elsewhere in the United States may be considered with a concrete relocation plan to San Francisco.
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