Clera
Founding Agentic Engineer
About this role
A founding-level engineering role building production agentic systems for a gig economy platform. You'll own the entire agent layer end-to-end, working directly with the CTO to establish patterns and infrastructure that scales across the company's AI systems.
What you'll do
- Own full agent layer including context engineering, self-learning systems, evals, and agent harness
- Build compounding knowledge base for integrations and develop self-healing autonomous workflows
- Design and maintain the harness infrastructure enabling rapid agent development and evaluation
- Establish engineering patterns and best practices for agent development across the platform
- Help hire and eventually lead the agentic systems team
- Experiment relentlessly with the founding team on production agentic applications
What they're looking for
- TypeScript
- Agent architecture and harness design
- Context engineering for LLM agents
- Agent tracing and evaluation frameworks
- PostgreSQL
- LLM/agent tooling
- Effect-TS (preferred)
- Production systems engineering
Benefits
- Founding-level equity and high ownership
- Work directly with CTO
- Visa sponsorship available
- Opportunity to shape foundational agent patterns
- Early-stage learning at frontier of applied AI
- San Francisco location with on-site requirement
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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
- Can you walk us through a recent agentic system you built in production and how you approached context engineering and evals?
- How have you structured agent harnesses or frameworks to enable rapid iteration and evaluation of new agents?