Clera

Senior Agent Engineer

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9 hours ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior

Responsibilities

  • Explore reasoning, planning, memory, tool use, and agent collaboration to identify product opportunities.
  • Build reusable agent skills and workflows for concrete user needs.
  • Develop the Python agent harness, including execution loops, orchestration, context management, structured outputs, retries, and error recovery.
  • Design tools and integrations for email, calendars, messaging, browsers, documents, CRMs, and business software.
  • Own capabilities across Python agents, Django services, APIs, React interfaces, data models, background jobs, observability, and production operations.
  • Improve latency, cost, reliability, and safety using evaluations, production traces, and user feedback.
  • Set technical direction for ambiguous problems and contribute through design reviews and implementation.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience building, deploying, and operating production software systems.
  • Strong Python proficiency and experience with Django and scalable backend services.
  • Working knowledge of APIs, React, and TypeScript.
  • Hands-on experience with agent systems, including planning, tool calling, structured outputs, context and state management, retries, and orchestration.
  • Experience building integrations with external APIs and business software, plus reusable platform abstractions.
  • Ability to translate ambiguous user needs and emerging technology into clear product capabilities.
  • Strong systems design, analytical debugging, communication, and production quality practices.
  • Experience optimizing distributed systems for latency, cost, and reliability, or working with LLMs, prompt engineering, or model evaluation, is valuable.
  • A degree from a highly regarded engineering program and a track record of sustained contribution or career progression.

Benefits

  • On-site work in Palo Alto, California, United States.
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