Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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Base Salary

$120k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own large product areas end-to-end from user research and scoping through production deployment.
  • Build and continuously improve agentic systems for accuracy, reliability, and capability.
  • Develop AI systems involving context engineering, tool use, and multi-agent architectures.
  • Talk directly with users, understand pain points, and scope outcome-oriented features.
  • Build full-stack features across a Go backend and Vite/TypeScript frontend.
  • Champion AI-first development practices, including coding agents, automation, and self-scaling workflows.
  • Review code and maintain high standards across the codebase.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated ability to own features end-to-end with minimal hand-holding, from ideation to production.
  • Hands-on experience designing and deploying AI-driven systems, including agent architectures, context engineering, and tool use.
  • Strong production-readiness experience with monitoring, observability, performance tuning, and reliability.
  • Deep product sense and a history of building for user outcomes.
  • Proficiency in Go and ability to write clean, maintainable backend code, with full-stack capability when needed.
  • Experience with modern AI development tooling, such as LLM-assisted coding, coding agents, and AI-native workflows.
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguity and independently determine what to build next.
  • Prior experience building something from scratch through a startup, founding role, or significant side project is a strong plus.
  • US work authorization is required.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $120,000–$250,000 USD annually plus generous equity.
  • Unlimited AI tooling budget.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
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