Clera

Senior Agent Engineer

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2 hours ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior

Responsibilities

  • Investigate advances in reasoning, planning, memory, tool use, and agent collaboration to identify product opportunities.
  • Translate model capabilities and user needs into reliable, reusable agent skills and workflows.
  • Build and evolve Python agent infrastructure for execution loops, orchestration, context management, structured outputs, retries, and error recovery.
  • Design integrations with email, calendars, messaging platforms, browsers, documents, CRMs, and other business software.
  • Own Django services, APIs, React interfaces, data models, background jobs, observability, and production operations.
  • Develop platform abstractions and improve latency, cost, reliability, and safety in high-volume agent execution.
  • Use evaluations, production traces, and user feedback to diagnose issues and improve system behavior.
  • Set technical direction on ambiguous problems and contribute through design reviews and implementation.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience building production software systems end-to-end through deployment and operational iteration.
  • Strong Python skills, including debugging asynchronous systems and building maintainable production services.
  • Hands-on experience building production agent systems with planning, tool calling, structured outputs, context and state management, retries, and orchestration.
  • Full-stack experience with Django, APIs, React, and TypeScript.
  • Experience owning complex production systems, including observability, troubleshooting, and improvement based on production signals.
  • Experience designing integrations with external APIs and business software platforms.
  • Strong product judgment and systems design skills, with the ability to turn ambiguous needs into useful capabilities.
  • Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, model evaluation, or latency, cost, and reliability work in distributed systems is beneficial.
  • A degree from a strong engineering program or equivalent evidence of strong technical fundamentals, plus sustained career progression or startup experience.

Benefits

  • On-site work in Palo Alto, California, United States.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
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