Founding Member of Technical Staff, AI

Clera; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding-team equity

Job summary

Clera Labs, Inc. seeks its first software engineer to collaborate with the founder and establish the engineering foundation.

You will build AI systems that streamline insurance workflows for small and medium businesses, starting from 0 to 1 in a fast-moving environment. Responsibilities include creating browser-use agents, voice AI integrations, and end-to-end systems with robust evaluation frameworks, plus carrier integrations and policy-analysis tooling.

Qualifications

• 0–5 years of software engineering experience.
• Hands-on production LLM/AI agent experience.
• Experience with Python or TypeScript.
• Ability to own systems from 0 to 1 in a fast-moving environment.
• A computer science or engineering degree.

Responsibilities

• Build browser-use agents to automate insurance workflows.
• Develop voice AI for interactions 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 AI agents for policy analysis and document processing.
• Own systems end to end and shape the technical direction from the ground up.

Skills

Production LLM / AI agent systems

Python or TypeScript

Browser-use agents / autonomous agent

System design & debugging fundamentals

Early-stage startup experience

Open-source AI/ML contributions

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Tools

LangGraph

Job description

About the Role

Join an early-stage commercial insurance technology company as its first engineer. You will work directly with the founder to establish the engineering foundation and build AI systems that streamline insurance workflows for small and medium businesses.

What You'll Do

• Build browser-use agents to automate insurance workflows.

• Develop voice AI for interactions 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 AI agents for policy analysis and document processing.

• Own systems end to end and help shape the technical direction from the ground up.

What We're Looking For

• Between 0 and 5 years of software engineering experience, with strong engineering fundamentals in system design, clean code, and debugging.

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

• Experience with Python or TypeScript; familiarity with LangGraph, browser-use agents, or autonomous agent frameworks is relevant.

• Ability to build and own systems from 0 to 1 in an ambiguous, fast‑moving environment.

• Experience as an early‑stage founding engineer or at an established technology company.

• A computer science or engineering degree and a strong technical foundation.

• Background in insurtech, fintech, or healthcare technology, and AI or machine learning open-source contributions, are relevant.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $150,000 to $225,000 annually, depending on experience, plus meaningful founding-team equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On‑site in San Francisco, California.