Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$250,000 annually
Level
Junior
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 5 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage agricultural technology team building an intelligence platform to help make sense of crop, soil, weather, and farm operations data. As one of the first engineers, you will take on end-to-end technical challenges and help shape the product and engineering culture.

What You'll Do

  • Build data pipelines that bring together farm data from sensors, satellite and drone imagery, weather sources, and agronomic records.
  • Train, evaluate, and deploy machine learning models, along with the infrastructure that supports them.
  • Put product features in front of growers, observe how they work in practice, and iterate based on what you learn.
  • Help choose the technology stack, establish engineering practices, and contribute to future hiring.

What We're Looking For

  • Roughly 0 to 4 years of professional experience, or an equivalent record of building and shipping work.
  • Strong coding ability in Python and/or TypeScript, with comfort working across the stack.
  • Experience specializing in data engineering, machine learning, or AI agent development, and a record of shipping code into production for users.
  • Evidence of completing substantial projects, such as research, open source, startup work, or independently built products.
  • Persistence through challenging technical or personal projects, and curiosity about AI and real-world industries.
  • Experience with PyTorch, computer vision, time-series, or geospatial data is a plus.
  • Interest or experience in agriculture, climate, food, hard tech, or early-stage startups is welcome. Agriculture experience is not required.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary up to $250,000 annually, plus meaningful equity. Visa sponsorship policy was not provided.

Location

On-site, five days per week in San Francisco, California, United States.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Computer Vision · PyTorch

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 6 times since 9 September 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco 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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