Clera

Founding Engineer

New York
Salary
$180,000 - $250,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
Remote · US only
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 5 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI company building multimodal agents for customer conversations across voice, SMS, and email. You will own a core product or engineering domain end to end, working closely with customers and the team to shape the product and bring improvements into production.

What You'll Do

  • Own a product or infrastructure domain from architecture through daily production releases.
  • Speak with customers, synthesize feedback, and make product decisions without a dedicated product manager.
  • Build and optimize multimodal agents, including low-latency voice experiences and persistent conversation state across channels.
  • Set quality practices for non-deterministic systems, including evaluations, prompt versioning, guardrails, and drift detection.
  • Work across React and Next.js frontends, Node.js backends, and Python services.

What We're Looking For

  • Three to eight years of full-stack engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and scaling products from early development into broader use.
  • Production proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js, plus experience building Python services.
  • Hands-on experience shipping production systems with LLM APIs or agent SDKs.
  • Depth in at least one area: production voice or SMS agents, long-running agent state and memory, agent evaluations and guardrails, or B2B2C and marketplace products.
  • Experience making independent product decisions, conducting customer discovery, and owning projects through launch.
  • Strong AI or agentic systems experience, including work with low-latency requirements and unpredictable system behavior. Voice pipeline or evaluation tooling experience is useful.
  • Comfort working in an early-stage environment with changing priorities and limited process.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $180,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site, five days per week in New York, New York.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Next.js · Node.js

Rare in Clera's other 183 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 182 open in Engineering. 116 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 (92 of 182), TypeScript (91 of 182), Python (76 of 182), React (76 of 182), Machine Learning (42 of 182), PostgreSQL (36 of 182), Supabase (36 of 182)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted 2 times 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 160,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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