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Clera

Founding Engineer

New York (Remote)$156k–$182kfulltimemidAdded 2 days ago

About this role

Join a Y Combinator-backed AI financial research startup as a founding engineer, building infrastructure and agentic systems for healthcare sector analysis. You'll own full-stack development across frontend, backend, real-time systems, and data pipelines in a three-person team where your work directly shapes the product.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain full-stack features including frontend, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure
  • Design and implement data pipelines and internal tools for analysts to onboard new information sources
  • Improve agentic AI parsing and extraction systems for greater reliability and capability
  • Own work end-to-end: data inspection, QA, instrumentation, production deployment, and incident resolution
  • Establish company data ontology and deliver initial versions of core product features
  • Add new information sources and ship measurable improvements to system speed or reliability

What they're looking for

  • Full-stack development: Python (FastAPI), TypeScript, React
  • Data engineering: ETL, data modeling, SQL, pipeline design
  • Production AI/LLM systems: agentic AI, prompt engineering, production deployment
  • Database design and optimization with PostgreSQL or relational systems
  • AWS infrastructure, deployment, and cloud operations
  • Production observability, monitoring, and distributed systems debugging
  • Real-time data systems and streaming architecture
  • Judgment on AI agent reasoning vs. deterministic logic tradeoffs

Benefits

  • Founding engineer equity and impact at Y Combinator-backed startup
  • Five days per week on-site in New York City
  • Opportunity to shape product and company direction from inception
  • Work with cutting-edge AI and financial technology stack
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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 production LLM or agentic AI system you built—what worked, what broke, and how you fixed it.
  • Describe a data pipeline you designed and how you handled scale, quality, or performance issues.
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