# Founding Engineer

About the Role Join an early-stage team building multimodal AI agents for customer communication across voice, SMS, and email. You will own a core product or technical domain, work directly with customers, and help shape product decisions as the platform grows. What You'll Do Own a domain end to end, from system architecture through shipping and operating production features. Join customer conversations, identify needs, and make product decisions in a fast-moving environment. Build and improve multimodal agents, including low-latency voice experiences and persistent conversations across channels. Set quality practices for non-deterministic systems, including evaluations, prompt versioning, guardrails, and drift detection. Contribute across React and Next.js frontends, Node.js backends, and Python services. What We're Looking For Typically 3 to 8 years of full-stack engineering experience, with a record of delivering products from early development through growth at startups, established technology companies, or as a founder. Production proficiency with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js, plus hands-on experience building with LLM APIs or agent SDKs. Experience owning an

- **Id**: 4180601
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-192>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T17:06:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T17:22:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2011
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## 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**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 180000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **New York** — Kind: city

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T17:22:33Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 48; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 48 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:2, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T19:52:33Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 250000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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