Clera

Founding Engineer, Agents

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21 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
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Base Salary

$200k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build autonomous agents that pursue goals over weeks with minimal or no human intervention.
  • Design memory systems that help agents retain and use knowledge over time.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks comparing agent performance against human-level baselines.
  • Improve agent reliability and reduce the need for human review of individual runs.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience building production agents that people rely on and understanding their failure modes.
  • Experience with agent memory, long-running execution, multi-step reasoning, and maintaining goal coherence over time.
  • A track record of building evaluation systems that inform real decisions, including comparisons against human-level baselines.
  • At least 1 to 2 years of experience at a fast-growing or AI-focused startup, with substantive engineering work.
  • Published research that others build on or software shipped at meaningful scale.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals and exceptional problem-solving ability, demonstrated through examples such as competitive programming, founding experience, or an equivalent credential.
  • Agent architecture experience is a plus, and a collaborative, kind working approach is valued.

Benefits

  • Meaningful founding equity is available.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site five days a week in San Francisco, California.

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