# Founding Engineer, NLP Systems and Infrastructure

About the Role Join an early-stage AI and dual-use technology company as its first technical hire. You will turn a research-grade prototype into reliable production software for enterprise and public-sector users, with broad ownership and the opportunity to build an engineering team. What You'll Do Architect production systems spanning orchestrated data and NLP pipelines, AI/ML integrations, CI/CD, observability, and cloud or on-premises deployment. Set and own the engineering roadmap, balancing delivery speed, quality, and security. Build and validate the first production release hands-on, including infrastructure and security decisions. Hire and lead an engineering team while setting technical direction, engineering standards, and a positive team culture. Work closely with company leadership and users to iterate on the product. What We're Looking For At least 5 years building and operating production data-intensive or NLP systems, including ingestion, deduplication, entity resolution, queues, and orchestrated pipelines. Strong Python skills and production engineering practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, and monitoring for data and model drift. Experience with Pos

- **Id**: 4180595
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-nlp-systems-and-infrastructure>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Munich, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T17:11:46Z
- **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**: 2108
- **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**: 60000
- **Max**: 120000
- **Currency**: EUR
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 133187

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **NLP** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: German; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

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

## Visa

- Country: DE; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 5; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 5 of its adverts here in 24 months; Cap exempt: no

## 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:4, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T21:36:56Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 133187
- **Is top pay**: no

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