Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$180k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build intelligence that models businesses, reconciles contradictory evidence, and reasons about decisions across companies and markets.
  • Design and ship agents that coordinate long-running financial work across hundreds of counterparties while preserving context, commitments, and dependencies.
  • Own end-to-end architecture, evaluations, infrastructure, and product interfaces for complex AI systems.
  • Work across backend systems, applied AI, and product layers to turn ambiguous problems into working products.
  • Help select technical teammates and establish engineering and operating standards.
  • Measure system effectiveness and uphold reliability and engineering craftsmanship.

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience shipping difficult, production-grade systems and owning critical technical decisions.
  • Deep expertise in applied AI, including intelligent agents and models for complex business processes.
  • Experience with retrieval, memory systems, and evaluation frameworks, particularly in data-intensive environments.
  • Proven ability to own architecture and infrastructure for complex AI systems.
  • Full-stack AI engineering capability across backend, applied AI, and product layers.
  • Experience in greenfield or first-principles environments is preferred.
  • Background in financial services, investment banking, or other complex professional workflows is advantageous.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $180,000 to $300,000 USD annually.
  • Equity is included.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
  • On-site position in San Francisco, California.
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