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Clera

Founding Product Engineer

  • Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
  • $200k–$300k
  • Mid level
  • Full-time
  • On-site · San Francisco
  • 4+ yrs exp
  • Added today

About this role

About the Role

Join an early-stage consumer AI company as its founding product engineer, with end-to-end ownership of an AI assistant and its user experience. You will shape how the assistant reasons, communicates, and takes action, combining hands-on engineering with close product collaboration and regular user feedback.

What You'll Do

  • Build the assistant's agent architecture, including tool-use loops, memory, context assembly, prompt design, and model routing.

  • Create evaluation systems with conversation replay, turn-level assessment, and regression tests to guide release decisions.

  • Own product experiences across web and mobile, including onboarding, follow-ups, group conversations, approvals, and trusted-network features.

  • Ship features from discovery through experimentation and launch, using user feedback and product data to guide iteration.

  • Develop integrations with services such as email, calendars, bookings, and payments, along with reliable approval and recovery flows.

  • Review conversation transcripts, speak with users, and help set engineering standards as the team grows.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 4 years of software engineering experience at an AI product company, AI lab, or consumer product company.

  • Production experience building agents with tool use, memory, and long-running conversations, plus evaluation systems trusted for release decisions.

  • Full-stack experience with TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Postgres.

  • Experience with third-party APIs, OAuth, payments, or agent tooling such as function calling, MCP servers, or browser automation.

  • A record of owning features end to end and demonstrating measurable product impact.

  • Strong product judgment, experience with AI-assisted development workflows, and the ability to validate and take responsibility for shipped work.

  • Experience leading a growing engineering team while remaining hands-on; post-training or fine-tuning experience is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.

Written by Clera. Original job post

Skills mentioned

  • Next.Js
  • PostgreSQL
  • React
  • TypeScript
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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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  • Describe your experience building agents with tool use, memory, and long-running conversations?
  • Can you walk me through your process for creating evaluation systems to guide release decisions?
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