Clera
Founding Engineer
About this role
Join an early-stage B2B SaaS startup as the first engineering hire, building AI-powered automation for industrial distributors and manufacturers. You'll own full-stack development across customer discovery, product design, and deployment, shipping features to production customers within your first week.
What you'll do
- Conduct customer discovery and translate business problems into technical product decisions
- Build and deploy full-stack features, AI agents, and integrations across the platform
- Develop and maintain automated testing, evaluation frameworks, and observability tooling
- Integrate with legacy systems, APIs, and enterprise ERP platforms
- Own meaningful product areas end-to-end with direct customer impact
- Improve implementation processes to accelerate customer onboarding and reliability
What they're looking for
- Full-stack development with TypeScript, Next.js, and Python
- Production AI agent development with context engineering and evaluation
- Google Cloud Platform deployment and management
- Legacy system and ERP integration experience
- Customer discovery and requirements gathering
- Testing, observability, and automated evaluation frameworks
- Rapid shipping and startup execution
- LLM frameworks and AI agent orchestration
Benefits
- Visa sponsorship available
- On-site work in San Francisco
- First engineering hire with significant equity and autonomy
- Direct customer interaction and product impact
- Early-stage startup environment with rapid iteration
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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.
View all jobs at CleraLikely interview questions
- Walk us through a production AI agent you built—how did you design the context, tools, and evaluation framework?
- Describe a time you shipped a feature to production quickly without sacrificing quality. What trade-offs did you make?