Clera

Founding Engineer

Clera
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4 days ago

Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Rebuild the working product into scalable agentic infrastructure capable of handling real production load.
  • Design and own the agent runtime, including orchestration, memory, verification, and trustworthy, auditable AI workforce systems.
  • Develop across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and agent systems end to end.
  • Set the technical architecture, engineering standards, and team-building practices from the beginning.
  • Ship product updates to business customers weekly.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of production software development experience, or an equivalent track record as a founder or solo builder.
  • Hands-on experience building and operating LLM or AI agent systems in production for real users.
  • Full-stack capability spanning backend, infrastructure, and user interfaces.
  • Experience turning prototypes into production infrastructure, including architecture, data modeling, runtimes, and orchestration.
  • Prior ownership of technical decisions as a founder, early hire, or solo technical lead.
  • Founder instincts or founder experience are strongly preferred.
  • Depth in agent orchestration, memory, evaluations, verification systems, or multi-agent workflows is a differentiator.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals or experience at a well-regarded engineering company is preferred but not required.
  • Ability to work with ambiguity and breadth as the first hire on an in-person founding team.

Benefits

  • Meaningful founding equity is included.
  • Relocation support is available.
  • Visa sponsorship is available for qualified candidates.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California, with the founding team working together in one room.
  • The role has a path to a CTO position as the engineering organization grows.
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