# Founding Software Engineer

About the Role Join an early-stage AI company building software that connects AI agents with real-world laboratory systems. You will own foundational infrastructure for experiment orchestration, agent connectivity, and distributed coordination across software and physical systems. What You'll Do Build systems that schedule and coordinate experiments across distributed labs. Connect AI agents to experiments and instruments through reliable infrastructure. Develop data infrastructure that captures system state, actions, measurements, failures, and provenance. Design distributed systems to coordinate software, devices, and experiments reliably at scale. Create developer tools and APIs for new workflows and integrations. Debug and optimize across software, hardware, and physical systems. What We're Looking For At least 3 years of experience building production-grade software systems end to end, typically within a 3 to 8 year experience range. Strong Python or Rust skills and a background building production backend or distributed systems at an early-stage startup. Experience designing distributed systems involving APIs, networking, and asynchronous communication. Strong softwa

- **Id**: 4320165
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-founding-software-engineer-18>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Munich, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-14T17:12:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-14
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T05:45:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1890
- **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**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 100000
- **Max**: 250000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 250000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Physical AI** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no

## Trust

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

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T19:35:39Z

## Visa

- Country: DE; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 6; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 6 of its adverts here in 24 months; Cap exempt: no

## Liveness

- **Score**: 36
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.361
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:2, agency, stale_co, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

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

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