# Founding Engineer

About the Role Join an early-stage B2B SaaS team building AI tools for industrial ingredient manufacturers. As a senior, hands-on engineering hire, you will work closely with company leadership to build products that streamline document-heavy operational and compliance workflows. What You'll Do Build backend systems that ingest and process documents from customer business systems and inboxes. Develop AI agents that complete complex, multi-page compliance and food safety documents. Own products end to end, from customer discovery and problem definition through architecture, launch, and iteration based on real usage. Ship and refine features quickly in response to user feedback. Contribute across frontend, backend, infrastructure, and product decisions. What We're Looking For At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial early-stage startup experience as a founder, co-founder, CTO, VP of Engineering, or engineering leader. A deliberate interest in returning to a hands-on individual contributor role, with recent experience writing and shipping production code. Experience owning and launching full-stack products from customer problem through

- **Id**: 4277315
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-194>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T17:15:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T19:23:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2028
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **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
- **Anthropic** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T19:23:38Z

## 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:0, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T20:08:55Z

## Pay

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

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