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Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco$80k–$120kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Join an early-stage Munich-based AI automation startup as a founding engineer, building enterprise-grade tooling that learns from video and screen-based workflows to automate high-volume tasks. You'll own product and technical direction end-to-end, designing data pipelines, integrating LLMs/VLMs, and working directly with enterprise customers on scalable automation solutions.

What you'll do

  • Build full-stack product features and core infrastructure for enterprise automation workflows using Python and FastAPI
  • Design and implement data pipelines to ingest, process, and structure large volumes of video and unstructured data into queryable formats
  • Integrate LLM and Vision-Language Model pipelines into production automation workflows
  • Collaborate directly with enterprise customers to map processes and identify automation opportunities
  • Drive land-and-expand go-to-market strategy by enabling repeatable, scalable integrations
  • Shape product direction and technical decisions as a founding team member with high ownership

What they're looking for

  • Python (production-level)
  • FastAPI and RESTful API design
  • Video processing and data pipelines
  • LLM/VLM integration and deployment
  • Data engineering (unstructured to structured data)
  • Cloud infrastructure and deployment
  • Customer collaboration and requirements translation
  • Full-stack engineering

Benefits

  • Significant equity ownership as founding team member
  • High ownership and autonomy over product and technical direction
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Direct impact on enterprise customer workflows
  • Early-stage startup environment with minimal bureaucracy
  • Opportunity to shape company direction alongside founders
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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 video processing pipeline you've built in production—what were the biggest scaling challenges and how did you solve them?
  • Describe your experience integrating LLMs or VLMs into production systems. What technical hurdles did you encounter and how did you address them?