Founding AI Engineer - Equity & High-Impact Ownership

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San Francisco (CA)

On-site

CAD 197,155 - 281,650

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Significant equity
Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Clera is building AI-powered talent matching to disrupt recruiting. You will be engineer #4 on the founding team, collaborating closely with the CTO and other engineers. You will ship features to production daily and own entire product areas from concept to deployment.

We are building fully agentic systems for complex workflows, offering meaningful equity, visa support, and high impact as we scale in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering background with modern JS/TS stack.
  • Experience building AI-enabled features and integrating LLM APIs.
  • Startup mindset with high ownership and rapid delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Own features from concept to deployment in production.
  • Ship features daily and drive product areas with CTO and founding engineers.
  • Build agentic systems to automate complex workflows and scale.

Skills

TypeScript
React
AI/LLM
ML APIs

Tools

Cursor
Supabase
Prisma
Typesense

Job description

Clera is building AI-powered talent matching to disrupt recruiting. You will be engineer #4 on the founding team, collaborating closely with the CTO and other engineers. You will ship features to production daily and own entire product areas from concept to deployment.

We are building fully agentic systems for complex workflows, offering meaningful equity, visa support, and high impact as we scale in a fast-paced startup environment.

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