Clera

Founding Engineer

New York
Salary
$156,000 - $182,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
Remote · US only
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 28 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join a small, early-stage team building AI-powered research tools for professional investors, initially focused on healthcare. As a founding engineer, you will develop the infrastructure and product systems that help AI agents turn diverse data sources into reliable, continuously updated industry models.

What You'll Do

  • Build and ship product features across frontend, backend, and real-time systems.
  • Create data pipelines and internal tools that make it faster and more reliable to add sources and maintain industry coverage.
  • Improve AI agent parsing and extraction systems, balancing agent reasoning with deterministic software.
  • Own work end to end, including data inspection, quality assurance, instrumentation, production releases, and ongoing fixes.
  • Develop a company ontology and an initial earnings research product.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 2 years of experience building, shipping, and operating production systems, with approximately 7 or fewer years of professional experience.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying agentic AI systems or LLM-based applications in production.
  • Full-stack capability, including Python with FastAPI or an equivalent framework, TypeScript, React, backend systems, and data pipelines.
  • Experience with ETL, data modeling, SQL, relational database design and optimization, and production observability and debugging.
  • Experience with AWS, deployment, and real-time or streaming data systems.
  • Strong ownership and production judgment, with depth in backend engineering, data infrastructure, applied AI, or product engineering.
  • Capital markets, financial research, investment banking, or broader financial services experience is a plus. Familiarity with modern data tools, edge infrastructure, or AI/ML tooling is also helpful.
  • Must be a US citizen and able to work on-site in New York City.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $156,000 to $182,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in New York City, New York.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

AWS · ETL · FastAPI · SQL

Rare in Clera's other 299 open postings.

Standard for software engineering roles

Python

Common in software engineering postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 210 open in Engineering. 144 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 (103 of 210), TypeScript (95 of 210), Python (82 of 210), React (81 of 210), Machine Learning (42 of 210), PostgreSQL (39 of 210), JavaScript (36 of 210)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

Posting history

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

Salary context

47 other open postings titled Founding Engineer state a salary: median USD 150,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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