Clera
Forward Deployed Engineer
About this role
Join an early-stage agentic AI platform as a founding engineer to own core systems including the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime. You'll work directly with founders, establish engineering patterns, and ship production systems from day one in a role that shapes the technical direction of a novel AI company.
What you'll do
- Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end
- Establish engineering patterns and standards for the organization
- Ship production features consistently and iterate with founders
- Design and evolve the system architecture across your first year
- Build distributed, production-grade agentic systems
- Mentor future engineering hires through established patterns
What they're looking for
- TypeScript (strong proficiency required)
- Backend systems and infrastructure design
- Production distributed systems
- React
- PostgreSQL
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Effect-TS
Benefits
- Visa sponsorship available
- Opportunity to shape architecture and direction
- Early-stage equity potential (implied)
- Work directly with founding team
- Set technical standards and patterns
- On-site in San Francisco
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Clera
Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.
View all jobs at CleraLikely interview questions
- Describe a complex distributed system you built—what were the key architectural decisions and how did you handle production issues?
- How do you approach establishing engineering patterns and standards in a new codebase?