# Founding Engineering Lead

About the Role Lead hands-on engineering and applied machine learning at an early-stage B2B SaaS company. You will shape the platform architecture and technical roadmap with the founders while leading a small engineering pod. What You'll Do Build and lead a pod of engineers, supporting their growth, performance, and hiring while shipping critical work yourself. Own platform architecture and make build-versus-buy and infrastructure decisions. Set engineering standards, code review criteria, release practices, definitions of done, and on-call policies. Lead technical design and initial implementation of new initiatives. Assess applied machine learning research and determine what is suitable for production systems. Partner with the CTO on product direction, model strategy, and machine learning approaches. What We're Looking For Typically 5 to 8 years of engineering experience, with exceptional candidates considered from 4 to 5 years. Experience in an AI-native company, with technical leadership or ownership that helped build and support an engineering team. Hands-on experience training and deploying machine learning models in commercial production products, beyond integrating

- **Id**: 3980909
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-engineering-lead-7>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Seniority**: lead
- **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**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T17:17:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T19:42:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1806
- **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**: 200000
- **Max**: 400000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 400000

## Technologies

- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T19:42:01Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 51; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 51 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**: 2026-11-09T20:35:57Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 400000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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