Clera

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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13 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end to end.
  • Establish engineering patterns and systems that support future team growth.
  • Work closely with company leadership, ship frequently to production, and shape the overall system.

Requirements

  • Two to nine years of professional software engineering experience with repeated ownership of production systems.
  • Broad engineering experience across AI agent platforms, infrastructure, and integration runtimes.
  • Experience using AI coding agents while maintaining sound production-quality judgment.
  • Strong engineering, computer science, or quantitative foundations supported by a completed or in-progress degree from a well-regarded technical university.
  • Experience founding a venture with outside funding or full-time employees, or working as an engineer at an early-stage startup backed by a leading accelerator or top-tier investors.
  • Experience with TypeScript, React, Bun, Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and AWS.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually.
  • On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week.
  • Candidates currently elsewhere in the United States should have a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco.
  • Visa sponsorship may be available when an O-1 visa is a realistic option.

Categories

Forward Deployed
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