Founding Member of Technical Staff

Clera Labs, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding-team equity

Job summary

Clera Labs, Inc. is founding an engineering team to build AI-powered systems that streamline how businesses obtain insurance.

You’ll work directly with the founder to craft core AI solutions including agents, voice interfaces, and end-to-end pipelines for underwriting and submission. You will contribute across a broad tech stack, with emphasis on Python/TypeScript, LangGraph, and AWS, in a fast-moving startup environment.

Qualifications

• Requires 0–5 years of software engineering experience, including recent graduates.
• Strong fundamentals in systems design, clean code, and debugging.
• Hands-on experience building production LLM, AI agent, or voice AI systems with evaluation frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build browser-use agents that automate insurance workflows.
• Develop voice AI for conversations with clients and insurance carriers.
• Create long-horizon LLM pipelines and evaluation frameworks.
• Build carrier integrations and AI-powered quoting and submission workflows.
• Develop agents for policy analysis and insurance document processing.
• Own systems end-to-end, contributing across a broad range of technical work.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

LLM/AI systems

System design

Debugging

End-to-end systems

Education

CS or engineering degree

Tools

LangGraph

AWS

Autonomous agent frameworks

Browser-use agents

Job description

About the Role

Join the founding engineering team at an AI-powered commercial insurance company. You will work directly with the founder to build core AI systems that streamline how businesses find and obtain insurance coverage.

What You'll Do

• Build browser-use agents that automate insurance workflows.

• Develop voice AI for conversations with clients and insurance carriers.

• Create long-horizon LLM pipelines and robust evaluation frameworks.

• Build carrier integrations and AI-powered quoting and submission workflows.

• Develop agents for policy analysis and insurance document processing.

• Own systems end-to-end, contributing across a broad range of technical work.

What We're Looking For

• Zero to five years of software engineering experience, including recent graduates.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including systems design, clean code, and debugging.

• Hands-on experience building production LLM, AI agent, or voice AI systems, ideally including evaluation frameworks.

• Experience with Python or TypeScript, and familiarity with LangGraph, AWS, browser-use agents, or autonomous agent frameworks.

• Ability to build end-to-end systems in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

• A CS or engineering degree and experience in a technical engineering role at a technology company or as a founding engineer.

• Background in insurtech, fintech, or healthcare technology, or contributions to AI/ML open-source projects, is beneficial.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $150,000 to $235,000 annually, depending on experience, with meaningful founding-team equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.