Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$180k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Help select and shape the early technical team and establish engineering operating standards.
  • Build intelligence systems that model businesses, reconcile contradictory evidence, and reason about decision propagation.
  • Design and ship agents coordinating complex financial work across hundreds of counterparties.
  • Own architecture, evaluations, infrastructure, and product interfaces for production AI systems.
  • Develop reliable products across backend systems, applied AI, and user-facing interfaces.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience shipping production-grade systems and owning critical technical decisions.
  • Deep hands-on expertise building intelligent agents for complex, multi-party workflows.
  • Full-stack AI engineering experience spanning backend systems, AI components, and product interfaces.
  • Experience with retrieval, memory systems, and evaluation frameworks in data-intensive environments.
  • Track record building AI models for business-process automation, evidence reconciliation, or decision propagation.
  • Experience owning greenfield or first-principles architecture for complex AI systems.
  • Background in financial services, document intelligence, or other complex professional workflows is preferred.
  • Experience at AI/ML document-intelligence or fintech research-tooling companies is preferred.
  • Strong ownership, craftsmanship, and focus on measuring real-world system performance.

Benefits

  • Equity is offered.
  • The role is on-site in San Francisco, California.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
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