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Clera

Founding Robotics Engineer

New York (Remote)$120k–$140kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

A founding robotics engineer role at a pre-seed company building low-cost, teleoperated humanoid robots for remote work in healthcare. You'll own end-to-end hardware and software design, from prototyping through fleet deployment, with significant equity and the chance to define the technical direction from day one.

What you'll do

  • Design and build a low-cost teleoperated humanoid robot with self-charging and autonomous navigation for under $1,000 BOM
  • Develop initial deployment targeting patient check-in in urgent care clinics and optimize human-robot interaction for patient preference
  • Deploy and maintain a fleet of 50+ robots in clinical environments while tracking and exceeding 500+ hour MTBF targets
  • Integrate hardware components (motors, sensors, actuators, compute) into reliable, cohesive systems
  • Build embedded firmware and deploy edge AI models to enable real-time operator guidance and accelerated training
  • Shape manufacturing and deployment strategy as the company scales

What they're looking for

  • Mechatronics and robot system integration
  • Embedded firmware and real-time software development
  • Machine learning deployment on edge devices
  • CAD design and 3D printing/rapid prototyping
  • Design for manufacturing (cost optimization, tolerances, assembly)
  • Fleet management and reliability engineering (MTBF tracking)
  • Human-robot interaction design
  • Full-stack robotics (hardware + software + AI)

Benefits

  • Meaningful founding equity stake (~1%)
  • Competitive salary $120,000–$140,000 annually
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Opportunity to define technical direction of a physical product from inception
  • On-site collaboration with a small, fast-moving founding team in New York
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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 robot or mechatronic system you shipped end-to-end—what were the biggest integration challenges and how did you solve them under cost constraints?
  • Describe your experience deploying machine learning models on edge devices with real-time latency requirements. What were the constraints and tradeoffs?
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