# CTO / Technical Co-Founder

About the Role As CTO and a founding team member at an early-stage AI company focused on agriculture, you will own technical vision and execution from the ground up. You will shape core architecture, deliver the first production systems, and help build the engineering team. What You'll Do Design and own the architecture for core product systems. Build and deploy production systems using modern AI models and tooling. Hire and lead the initial engineering team, establishing technical standards and culture. Set shipping priorities and balance speed, quality, and scope. Partner with company leadership on technical strategy and execution. What We're Looking For 2 to 8 years of hands-on experience building and shipping products with modern AI models and tooling. Experience deploying production systems using current AI models and frameworks. Strong systems architecture skills, including architecting systems from inception. Experience building or leading early-stage engineering teams and owning end-to-end technical decisions. Working knowledge of Python, TypeScript, and PyTorch. A collaborative, hands-on approach and interest in applying AI to agriculture. Authorization to work

- **Id**: 3813353
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-cto-technical-co-founder>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Employment type**: cofounder
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T14:05:40Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T00:08:40Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-08T00:08:40Z
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1448
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: yes

## Company

- **Id**: 2706
- **Name**: Clera
- **Domain**: getclera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clera>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T15:25:04Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-08T00:08:40Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 51; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 51 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

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