# Founding Engineer, NLP Systems & Infrastructure

About the Role Join an early-stage AI and deep-tech team as its first technical hire, turning a research-grade prototype into reliable production software for enterprise and public-sector use. You will lead architecture and delivery hands-on, then build and manage the engineering team. What You'll Do Design and own production architecture for orchestrated data and NLP pipelines, AI/ML integrations, CI/CD, observability, and cloud or on-premises deployment. Set the engineering roadmap while balancing delivery speed, quality, and security. Build the initial production system hands-on and validate infrastructure and security decisions. Hire and manage an engineering team, setting technical direction, standards, and a constructive team culture. Work closely with founders 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. Python as your primary language, with experience in automated testing, CI/CD, and observability, including data and model drift monitoring. Production experience with PostgreSQL and

- **Id**: 3834361
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineer-nlp-systems-infrastructure-7>
- **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**: 2026-11-05T17:17:23Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T19:42:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2035
- **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**: 39
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 60000
- **Max**: 120000
- **Currency**: EUR
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 134722

## 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**: 4

## 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: 2026-11-05T20:30:05Z

## Visa

- Country: DE; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 8; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 8 of its adverts here in 24 months; Cap exempt: no

## Liveness

- **Score**: 29
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.327
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:0, agency, stale_co, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 134722
- **Is top pay**: no

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