Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$150,000 - $250,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Sponsors visas

Open. First seen 27 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage engineering team building an AI-powered integration platform for businesses. You will own core systems across the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime, helping establish the foundations for the product as it grows.

What You'll Do

  • Build and operate the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end to end.
  • Set engineering patterns and practices that support the work of future engineers.
  • Work directly with company founders to shape the system and regularly ship production improvements.

What We're Looking For

  • Two to nine years of professional software engineering experience, with a broad background beyond machine learning alone.
  • A completed or in-progress bachelor's, master's, or PhD degree in engineering, computer science, or a quantitative field from a strong technical university.
  • Experience repeatedly shipping and owning production systems end to end, with demonstrated ability across agent platforms, infrastructure, and integration runtimes.
  • Comfort using multiple AI coding agents while applying sound judgment to production quality.
  • Experience founding a startup with outside funding or full-time employees, or engineering at an early-stage startup backed by a recognized accelerator or venture capital firm.
  • Familiarity with TypeScript, React, Bun, Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, or AWS is relevant to the stack.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range: $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic option.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week. Candidates elsewhere in the United States should have a concrete, dated plan to relocate to San Francisco.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

AWS · Kubernetes

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The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 422 open in Engineering. 356 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

Python (184 of 422), LLM (176 of 422), TypeScript (164 of 422), React (136 of 422), Machine Learning (110 of 422), PostgreSQL (80 of 422), JavaScript (73 of 422)

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Posting history

Reposted once since 27 September 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

216 other open postings titled Forward Deployed Engineer state a salary: median USD 160,000 to USD 220,000 a year.

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