Clera

Founding Engineer

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21 hours ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own a core product or engineering domain from architecture through frequent production releases.
  • Speak with customers, synthesize feedback, and make product decisions independently.
  • Build and optimize multimodal agents for voice, SMS, and email communication.
  • Develop low-latency voice experiences and persistent, cross-channel conversation state.
  • Set quality practices for non-deterministic systems, including evaluations, prompt versioning, guardrails, and drift detection.
  • Work across React and Next.js interfaces, Node.js services, and Python systems.

Requirements

  • Three to eight years of full-stack engineering experience with a record of shipping and scaling products in fast-paced, early-stage environments.
  • Production proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js, plus experience building Python services.
  • Hands-on production experience with LLM APIs or agent SDKs such as Anthropic, OpenAI, or comparable tools.
  • Strong depth in at least one area: production voice or SMS agents, long-running agent state and memory, agent evaluations and guardrails, or B2B2C and marketplace products.
  • Experience making product decisions, conducting customer discovery, and owning shipped work without a dedicated product manager.
  • Understanding of backend infrastructure and data structures for persistent conversations, low-latency systems, and non-deterministic behavior.
  • Python experience with real-time voice pipelines or evaluation tooling is useful.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals or founder experience with demonstrated product traction are valued.

Benefits

  • On-site five days per week in New York, New York.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
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