Clera

Founding Engineer

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22 hours ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$180k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own a core product or engineering domain from system architecture through daily production releases.
  • Build and optimize multi-channel AI agents for voice, SMS, and email, including low-latency voice experiences and persistent conversation state.
  • Establish quality practices for non-deterministic systems, including evaluations, prompt versioning, guardrails, and drift detection.
  • Work across React and Next.js interfaces, Node.js backends, and Python services.
  • Join customer calls, conduct discovery, synthesize feedback, and make independent product decisions.
  • Ship early-stage product work through rapid iteration and support launches or major customer milestones.

Requirements

  • Three to eight years of full-stack engineering experience, including shipping early-stage products at startups, as a founder, or on new product teams.
  • Strong production experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js, plus experience building with LLM APIs or agent SDKs.
  • Depth in at least one area such as agent state and memory, evaluations and guardrails, B2B2C or marketplace architecture, or production voice and SMS agents.
  • Experience making product decisions and conducting customer discovery without a dedicated product manager.
  • Python experience with real-time voice pipelines or evaluation tools is valuable.
  • Strong computer science fundamentals and experience with low-latency systems are relevant.
  • Comfort working with ambiguity, rapid iteration, and occasional intense periods around launches or major customer milestones.

Benefits

  • Annual salary of $180,000 to $250,000.
  • On-site schedule five days per week in New York, New York, United States.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
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