Founding Tech Leader for AI Infrastructure Startup

Clera; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Clera is seeking a founding-team leader to shape the technical and product direction of an AI infrastructure startup. This seat is unscoped to match your strengths—engineering, product, or operations—and is the technical leadership role for the right candidate.

You will define the first-90-day scope, shape the platform architecture, and partner with the founder on strategy while building the initial engineering team. Relocation and visa sponsorship are available.

Qualifications

• Has founded a venture-backed or bootstrapped company, OR served as CTO or first technical hire at a startup, OR shipped a product a team still credits you for.
• Can articulate a concrete, opinionated plan for what you would own in the first 90 days.
• Thrives in a small, high-trust, high-standards environment with limited process.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and building the role around strengths rather than a fixed job description.

Responsibilities

• Define and own your first-90-day scope across engineering, product, or operations, then drive it to completion.
• Shape the architecture and direction of a platform used by founders and operators to run AI-powered businesses.
• Work closely with the founder to set technical and product strategy at the earliest stage of company building.
• Help hire and set the bar for the first engineering team.

Skills

Founding startup experience

CTO or first tech hire

Strategic planning for 90 days

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Clera is seeking a founding-team leader to shape the technical and product direction of an AI infrastructure startup. This seat is unscoped to match your strengths—engineering, product, or operations—and is the technical leadership role for the right candidate.

You will define the first-90-day scope, shape the platform architecture, and partner with the founder on strategy while building the initial engineering team. Relocation and visa sponsorship are available.