Clera

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

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17 hours ago
Berlin, GermanyMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Own AI automation use cases from customer discovery and requirements scoping through production deployment.
  • Translate ambiguous enterprise customer problems into scoped, buildable solutions and ship them quickly.
  • Build applied AI solutions using LLMs, agentic workflows, vision models, and embeddings.
  • Design data pipelines for document ingestion, extraction, validation, and orchestration.
  • Identify recurring project patterns and turn them into reusable, scalable templates.
  • Balance speed, accuracy, and human-in-the-loop processes.
  • Gather requirements directly from German-speaking enterprise stakeholders and visit customer sites.
  • Help shape the technical direction of the product and company as a founding-team engineer.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of experience as a software engineer or data scientist building production systems.
  • Hands-on production experience deploying applied AI solutions involving LLMs, agentic workflows, vision models, and embeddings.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals gained through a degree or clearly equivalent formal grounding.
  • Full-stack experience with backend API development in Node.js/TypeScript or Python and frontend development in TypeScript/React or similar.
  • Experience designing document-processing data pipelines for extraction and validation from unstructured PDFs, images, and documents.
  • Experience with vector databases, semantic search, or domain ontologies.
  • Experience integrating multiple LLM providers such as OpenAI, Azure, Gemini, or Cohere and writing effective prompts.
  • Ability to own problems end-to-end from requirements gathering through deployment.
  • B2B experience with enterprise stakeholders and experience in early-stage startups or founding teams.
  • C1-level German proficiency or above.
  • Willingness to travel to customer sites and work fully on-site in Berlin five days per week.

Benefits

  • Salary range of EUR 72,000 to EUR 100,000 annually.
  • Founding-team opportunity with influence over product direction and company culture from day one.
  • Fully on-site in Berlin five days per week, with occasional travel to customer sites across Germany.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

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