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title: "Ex-Founder / Ex-CTO"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-ex-founder-ex-cto-6cad715f-21ce-4d11-8475-78b93406f04f"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/11115b03-e53e-4fb0-86bf-36f42c507a46"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: executive
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
date_posted: 2026-09-23T17:10:09.375Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-23T17:12:22.320Z
---

# Ex-Founder / Ex-CTO

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/11115b03-e53e-4fb0-86bf-36f42c507a46

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a founding-team seat at an early-stage AI infrastructure startup building the operating layer for AI-native service businesses. The scope is deliberately open: engineering leadership, product direction, or running the operating side of the company, shaped around what you do best. If you can own a concrete first-90-days plan, the role is built around it.

##### What You'll Do

- Define and own a major domain, whether that is technical architecture, product strategy, or company operations, from day one.

- Work alongside the founder to set the pace and standards for the first engineering hires joining the team.

- Translate a strong founding thesis into shipped product, fast.

- For the technical leadership track: lead engineering direction, make hands-on architectural decisions, and establish the technical culture of the company.

##### What We're Looking For

- Has founded a venture-backed or bootstrapped company, regardless of outcome.

- Has served as CTO or first technical hire at a startup, or shipped a product a team still credits them for.

- Has run a service business and understands from the inside what AI-native operations can replace.

- Can articulate a concrete first-90-days scope and wants a role shaped around their strengths rather than a fixed job description.

- Brings the execution pace and judgment expected on a small, high-trust founding team.

- For the technical seat: sufficient hands-on depth to lead engineering direction credibly.

- Committed to working in person in San Francisco full-time.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Compensation and equity are sized for someone building the company, not joining it. Specific numbers are shared on the first call. Relocation support and visa sponsorship are available.

##### Location

On-site in San Francisco, United States. Relocation assistance and visa sponsorship are provided.

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