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Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco$120k–$150kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Founding engineering role at a seed-stage hardtech startup building AI-assisted PCB design and EDA automation tools. You'll own core tooling and manufacturing pipeline integrations while working directly with the founding team to shape product and technical strategy.

What you'll do

  • Build and ship AI-assisted PCB design tools and EDA automation features for real customers
  • Integrate manufacturing pipelines and manage the full hardware-to-production workflow
  • Solve full-stack problems across backend systems and user-facing tooling
  • Collaborate with founding team to define product direction and technical strategy
  • Ship fast, iterate on user feedback, and resolve technical blockers
  • Own core platform architecture and development from the ground up

What they're looking for

  • PCB design and EDA tooling (KiCad, schematic review)
  • Systems or low-level programming (C, C++, Rust, Go)
  • Full-stack software development
  • Embedded systems and firmware development
  • Hardware product shipping and manufacturing integrations
  • Software architecture and systems design
  • AI/ML applications to design automation (bonus)
  • Hardware supply chain knowledge (bonus)

Benefits

  • Equity stake as founding engineer
  • Direct influence on product and technical strategy
  • Work on meaningful hardtech problems with real-world impact
  • Collaborate closely with founding team
  • 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.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a hardware or physical product you shipped end-to-end—what was your role and what technical challenges did you solve?
  • Describe your hands-on PCB design experience. Which EDA tools have you used and what projects have you designed?
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