Clera

Founding Agentic Engineer

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5 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
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Base Salary

$150k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and own the agent layer, including context engineering, self-learning systems, evaluations, the agent harness, and the meta-harness.
  • Build a compounding knowledge base of undocumented systems to improve future integrations.
  • Develop self-healing workflows that detect production failures, diagnose root causes, and recover autonomously.
  • Define engineering patterns and standards for building, measuring, and improving company agents.
  • Help grow the agentic engineering team, with a path toward leading the people who own these systems.
  • Work directly with the CTO and founding team to experiment and scale production agentic systems.

Requirements

  • 2–9 years of software engineering experience with hands-on agentic software shipped within the last year.
  • Deep familiarity with harness-centric agent development, including context engineering and eval-driven iteration.
  • Strong understanding of agent tracing and evaluation frameworks.
  • Implementation-focused experience shipping working production systems rather than research prototypes.
  • Proficiency in TypeScript.
  • Experience with Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, and LLM/agent tooling is a strong plus.
  • Background from high-caliber engineering organizations such as large technology companies, professional services firms, or developer tooling companies.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship is available.
  • The role is onsite in San Francisco, California.
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