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Clera

Founding Engineer, AI Product

San Francisco
Level
Senior
Work type
On-site · San Francisco

Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.

Open. First seen 22 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join the AI product team as a founding engineer, owning an agent-based product from concept through production. You will shape product and technical decisions while building user-facing features and the backend systems that power the platform.

What You'll Do

  • Design and build user-facing features for an AI agent product, balancing usability with technical feasibility.
  • Develop and maintain backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure for production AI workloads.
  • Gather feedback, test product ideas, and ship improvements in rapid cycles.
  • Own systems end-to-end, from architecture and implementation to deployment and monitoring.
  • Collaborate with the founding team on product direction and technical strategy.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience and a record of shipping products.
  • Full-stack product engineering skills across frontend, backend, and production infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying AI-powered products, LLM applications, or agent workflows.
  • Experience owning systems from zero to one, ideally in a startup, founding-engineer, solo-builder, or early-stage environment.
  • Comfort working through ambiguity and making decisions with incomplete information.

Location

This is a full-time, on-site role in San Francisco, California. Candidates should be able to work on-site in the Bay Area or relocate.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 385 open in Engineering. 319 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (162 of 385), Python (160 of 385), TypeScript (151 of 385), React (122 of 385), Machine Learning (92 of 385), PostgreSQL (70 of 385), JavaScript (66 of 385)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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