Founding Engineer

Clera; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Relocation support

Job summary

Clera seeks an early-stage engineer to become the company’s first technical hire. You will work directly with the founder to scale AI-powered services, owning major architectural decisions and the product’s technical direction.

Responsibilities span backend, infra, frontend, and AI agents, with broad ownership as the team grows. You must ship improvements regularly to real-world users and relocate to San Francisco within a year.

Qualifications

• 2+ years shipping production software or equivalent founder/solo build.

Responsibilities

• Develop architecture and infra to scale the product to a large user base.
• Build and operate the agent runtime and supporting systems.
• Take projects end-to-end across backend, infra, frontend, and AI agents.
• Set technical standards and guide engineering as the team grows.
• Ship improvements to users operating real businesses.

Skills

Production software shipping

LLM / AI agent systems

Full-stack development

Architectural design

Independent work

Job description

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI infrastructure startup as its first engineer. You will work directly with the founder to evolve a functioning product into scalable infrastructure for AI-powered service businesses, with broad ownership across the product and its technical direction.

What You'll Do

• Develop the architecture and infrastructure needed to scale the product to a large user base.

• Build and operate the agent runtime, including orchestration, memory, verification, and supporting systems.

• Take projects end to end across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and AI agents.

• Set technical standards and guide how the engineering team builds as it grows.

• Ship improvements regularly to users operating real businesses.

What We're Looking For

• At least 2 years of experience shipping production software, or an equivalent record as a founder, solo builder, or exceptional early-career engineer.

• Experience building and running LLM or AI agent systems in production, with real users relying on them.

• Full-stack range, including the ability to work across backend, infrastructure, and user interfaces.

• Experience turning prototypes into dependable systems through sound architecture, data models, runtime design, and orchestration.

• Evidence of owning technical decisions and delivering quickly in an early-stage or independent environment.

• Strong generalist engineering skills and practical experience with agent workflows, memory, evaluations, or verification are valuable.

• Based in Europe and willing to relocate to San Francisco within the first year.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is €80,000 to €140,000 annually. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for a move to San Francisco.

Location

Remote within Europe, with relocation to San Francisco expected within the first year.