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Founding Engineer

Clera • Relocation: Yes • 2 days ago

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Salary

$89k – $157k per year

Location

In office

Seniority

Junior · 2+ years exp

Visa

Sponsorship offered in the posting

Employment

Full-Time

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 27, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 25, 2026. Clera scores B on the Alion truth index.

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Clera

Clera is a San Francisco company that runs an AI recruiting platform positioned as a talent agent rather than a job board, matching engineers and other technical candidates to roles at venture-backed startups. Its system reads a candidate's background and preferences, then represents them to hiring teams at companies funded by firms such as Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, Index Ventures and General Catalyst, compressing the introduction step that traditional headhunting handles manually. The model is aimed at the segment where recruiter fees are highest and candidate supply is thinnest, and the platform handles screening, scheduling and pipeline tracking for both sides of the match.

getclera.com • HQ: San Francisco, United States • HR & Recruiting AI • Recruiting & Staffing • 11-50 employees • Est. 2023

Backed by TU

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI company as its first engineering hire, partnering with the founder to turn a working product into reliable infrastructure for AI-powered service businesses. You will help shape the architecture, agent runtime, and engineering practices as the product scales.

What You'll Do

Rebuild the existing product into infrastructure designed to support significant growth.
Design and operate agent systems, including orchestration, memory, and verification.
Own projects end to end across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and AI agents.
Set technical direction, choose the stack, and establish a high-quality engineering culture.
Ship improvements weekly or faster to customers using the product in their businesses.

What We're Looking For

At least two years shipping production software, or an equivalent record as a founder, solo builder, or exceptional early-career engineer.
Full-stack range, with the ability to work across backend, infrastructure, and user interfaces.
Experience building and operating production LLM or AI agent systems relied on by real users.
Experience evolving a working prototype into scalable infrastructure, including architecture, data models, runtime, and orchestration.
Evidence of owning technical decisions in an early-stage environment, and the ability to explain the difficult parts of systems you have shipped.
Experience with agent orchestration, memory, evaluations, verification, or multi-agent workflows is useful.
Founder experience or familiarity with recruiting, agencies, or other service-delivery businesses is a plus.
Based in Europe and willing to relocate to San Francisco within the first year.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: €80,000 to €140,000 annually. Equity is part of the founding-level opportunity. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for a move to San Francisco.