# Founding Engineer, Environments and Data

About the Role Build evaluation environments and benchmarks that measure whether AI agents can perform real company work and match or exceed human performance. This founding engineering role focuses on agent capability assessment and production readiness, shaping how agent competence is measured. What You'll Do Design synthetic company environments with realistic email, records, and files for extended agent use. Create robust graders and evaluation systems that can assess agents beyond the expertise of human reviewers. Develop benchmarks that correlate with real-world production performance. Find and fix evaluation failures, including reward hacking and benchmark gaming. Simulate software tools such as inboxes and CRMs with enough fidelity to support agent interactions at scale. What We're Looking For Hands-on experience with synthetic data pipelines, benchmarks, evaluations, or post-training; this is a research and engineering role, not a pure infrastructure position. Experience building environments or benchmarks used to train or evaluate agents, and designing graders or evaluation systems for AI agents. Experience simulating complex software systems for agent tool use, an

- **Id**: 4180591
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-environments-and-data-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: junior
- **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**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T17:16:12Z
- **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**: 2050
- **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**: 200000
- **Max**: 300000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 300000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Synthetic Data** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## 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:1, agency, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T18:47:50Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 300000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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