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Clera

Founding Engineer

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About this role

Join an early-stage AI startup as a Founding Engineer to build production-grade AI agents automating freight and logistics operations. You'll translate customer needs directly into full-stack products while advancing LLM capabilities, working closely with a founding team to scale from demo to global deployment.

What you'll do

  • Lead customer discovery sessions and convert operational insights into product features and technical strategy
  • Design and deploy full-stack applications across the product using modern web technologies
  • Advance AI capabilities by implementing LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning
  • Architect the transition from prototypes to scalable, production-ready systems
  • Shape product roadmap and technical architecture alongside the founding team
  • Drive end-to-end product development from MVP through global deployment

What they're looking for

  • Node.js and TypeScript
  • React frontend development
  • Python backend development
  • LLM design patterns and prompt engineering
  • Vector databases and retrieval systems
  • Model fine-tuning and AI integration
  • Full-stack product development
  • Startup environment navigation and rapid iteration

Benefits

  • Founding-level equity and ownership in a venture-backed company
  • Direct influence over product direction and company strategy
  • Work with experienced team from top strategy firms and logistics tech companies
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Hybrid work arrangement in Berlin
  • Opportunity to scale a product globally in an underserved industry
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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 project where you designed and deployed an AI-powered feature from concept to production—what were the key technical decisions?
  • Describe your experience with LLM design patterns and vector stores. How have you optimized retrieval and inference in a production system?
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