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Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco$120k–$200kfulltimemidAdded yesterday

About this role

Join an early-stage startup as a founding engineer building AI-assisted PCB design tools and EDA automation infrastructure. You'll own the full technical stack from frontend tooling to backend systems and manufacturing integrations, working directly with the founding team to shape product direction at the intersection of hardware and modern developer tools.

What you'll do

  • Build and ship AI-assisted PCB design tools and EDA automation features to users
  • Integrate manufacturing pipelines and manage end-to-end hardware-to-production workflows
  • Own full-stack problems across platform, from backend systems to user-facing tooling
  • Collaborate with founding team to define technical strategy and product direction
  • Ship fast, iterate on user feedback, and address business-critical blockers
  • Contribute to technical architecture decisions and long-term platform design

What they're looking for

  • PCB design, schematic review, or KiCad experience
  • Proficiency in C, C++, Rust, or Go
  • Embedded systems and firmware development
  • Full-stack software engineering and systems design
  • Hardware product development and manufacturing knowledge
  • AI/ML concepts applied to design automation (bonus)
  • EDA tools and supply chain integration (bonus)
  • Open-source contribution or portfolio work

Benefits

  • Founding team equity and early-stage growth opportunity
  • Full technical ownership and product direction influence
  • Work on cutting-edge AI and hardware intersection
  • 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 hardware or physical product you shipped end-to-end—what was your role and what were the key technical challenges?
  • Describe your experience with PCB design tools like KiCad or other EDA platforms and how you've used them in a real project.
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