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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 scale an AI-native service infrastructure from a live product into a production system serving millions. You'll own the full technical vision—from agent runtime and backend systems to frontend—working directly with the founder with a clear path to CTO.

What you'll do

  • Architect and rebuild the product into scalable agentic infrastructure handling orchestration, memory, and verification
  • Design and operate the agent runtime ensuring reliability for real business users
  • Own full-stack development across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and agent systems
  • Establish technical standards, select the engineering stack, and define engineering culture from the ground up
  • Ship production features on a weekly cadence with real users depending on the systems

What they're looking for

  • Production software shipping (2+ years or founder equivalent)
  • LLM and AI agent systems design and operation
  • Full-stack development across backend, infrastructure, and frontend
  • System architecture and scalability planning
  • Technical decision-making with full ownership
  • Agent orchestration and memory systems
  • Data modeling and runtime design
  • Evals and verification systems

Benefits

  • Base salary $150,000–$250,000 annually
  • Meaningful founding equity
  • Relocation support available
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Clear path to CTO role
  • On-site collaboration 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 production LLM or AI agent system you built—what were the hardest scaling or reliability challenges?
  • Tell us about a time you rebuilt or refactored a prototype into production infrastructure. What changed architecturally?
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