Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Rebuild the existing product into scalable agentic infrastructure capable of serving a million users.
  • Design and operate the agent runtime, including orchestration, memory, verification, and reliability systems.
  • Own full-stack work across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and agent systems.
  • Define the technical architecture, stack, engineering standards, and initial engineering culture.
  • Ship production software weekly for businesses relying on the product.

Requirements

  • At least two years of experience shipping production software, or an equivalent track record as a founder or solo builder.
  • Demonstrated experience building and operating LLM or AI agent systems in production for real users.
  • Full-stack ability spanning backend, infrastructure, and user interface development.
  • Experience scaling prototypes into production infrastructure, including architecture, data modeling, runtime, and orchestration.
  • Experience owning technical decisions as a founder, early hire, or solo technical lead.
  • Strong founder instincts; prior founder experience is a strong signal.
  • Familiarity with agent orchestration, agent memory, evaluations, verification systems, or multi-agent workflows is preferred.
  • A strong academic or professional engineering background is helpful but not required.
  • Based in the San Francisco Bay Area or genuinely open to relocating there.

Benefits

  • Meaningful founding equity is included.
  • Relocation support is available.
  • Visa sponsorship is available for candidates not yet in the United States.
  • The role is onsite in San Francisco, California, with the founding team working together in one room.
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