Clera

Founding Engineer, Environments and Data

Clera
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Base Salary

$200k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design synthetic company environments with realistic email, records, and files for extended AI-agent use.
  • Build graders and evaluation systems capable of assessing AI agents beyond human reviewer expertise.
  • Develop benchmarks that correlate with real-world production performance.
  • Identify and fix evaluation failures, including reward hacking and benchmark gaming.
  • Simulate software tools such as inboxes and CRMs with sufficient fidelity for agent interactions at scale.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience with synthetic data pipelines, benchmarks, evaluations, or post-training in an AI research or engineering context.
  • Experience building environments or benchmarks used to train or evaluate AI agents and designing agent graders or evaluation systems.
  • Experience simulating complex software systems for agent tool use and identifying benchmark flaws or fixing reward hacking.
  • At least 1 to 2 years at a fast-growing or AI-focused startup with relevant AI research or engineering experience.
  • Strong startup experience, such as founding a company or participating in an accelerator.
  • High-level competition experience in areas such as mathematics, programming, debate, or games.
  • Conviction that AI agents can outperform humans at many computer-based tasks.

Benefits

  • $200,000 to $300,000 annual base salary, with up to $350,000 for exceptional candidates.
  • Commission-style bonus of up to $200,000 or more tied to the value of delivered environments.
  • Meaningful founding equity is available.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • On-site five days a week in San Francisco, California.

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