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Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco$150k–$250kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join a pre-seed startup as the first engineering hire to transform a revenue-generating AI product into scalable, production-grade infrastructure. You'll work directly with the founder to build agentic systems capable of serving millions of users, with a clear path to CTO as the team grows.

What you'll do

  • Rebuild the existing product into scalable agentic infrastructure handling real production load
  • Design and own the agent runtime including orchestration, memory, verification, and auditability systems
  • Lead full-stack development across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and agent systems
  • Establish technical architecture, engineering standards, and development practices from day one
  • Ship features to production customers on a weekly cadence
  • Own technical decisions and drive product direction alongside the founder

What they're looking for

  • Production LLM and AI agent systems experience
  • Full-stack development (backend, infrastructure, frontend)
  • System design and scalability
  • Agent orchestration and memory systems
  • Database design and data modeling
  • Infrastructure and DevOps
  • Computer science fundamentals
  • Technical leadership and decision-making

Benefits

  • Meaningful founding equity
  • Clear path to CTO role
  • Relocation support
  • Visa sponsorship
  • On-site collaboration with founding team
  • Weekly shipping cadence with real customers
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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.

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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a production LLM or AI agent system you've built—what were the biggest challenges in making it reliable at scale?
  • Describe a time you rebuilt or refactored a working prototype into infrastructure that could handle real load. What architectural decisions were critical?
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