# Founding Product Engineer

About the Role Join an early-stage engineering team building AI-powered software for industrial ingredient manufacturers. You will work closely with the founding team and own products end to end, from customer discovery to shipped software, across backend systems, AI agents, frontend, and infrastructure. What You'll Do Speak with ingredient manufacturers to understand their workflows and turn customer needs into product features. Build backend systems that ingest and process documents from customer ERP systems and inboxes. Develop AI agents that help complete complex compliance and food safety documents. Own product work from problem definition and scoping through implementation, launch, and iteration. Ship quickly, incorporate user feedback, and adapt to the needs of an early-stage company. What We're Looking For At least 4 years of professional experience, with substantial hands-on software engineering and production coding. Experience as a product manager who transitioned into engineering, or as a sole or first product engineer with end-to-end product ownership. A track record of shipping products or major features used by real customers, with the ability to discuss produ

- **Id**: 4180584
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-product-engineer-79>
- **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**: 2026-11-12T17:21:54Z
- **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**: 1862
- **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
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Kotlin** — 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

## 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:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T18:29:17Z

## Pay

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

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