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title: "Founding Engineer"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-founding-engineer-02daa31e-edff-42b7-8eed-c6836297de24"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/2fefcb30-7275-4d56-acb5-e9c3aa16cb39"
workplace: remote
location: "New York"
remote_scope: "New York"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["llm", "nextjs", "nodejs", "python", "react", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2026-09-15T17:13:36.066Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T17:50:31.424Z
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# Founding Engineer

**Clera** · New York

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/2fefcb30-7275-4d56-acb5-e9c3aa16cb39

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a founding engineering seat on a small, fast-moving team building multi-modal AI agents across voice, SMS, and email for the sports technology and sales automation space. You will own one of four core domains end-to-end, from architecture through daily production shipments, and make product decisions directly alongside customers with no PM layer.

##### What You'll Do

- Own an entire domain end-to-end, covering architecture, feature development, and production operations.

- Join customer calls, synthesize feedback, and drive product decisions independently.

- Build and optimize multi-modal agents targeting sub-500ms voice latency, high SMS response rates, and long-running conversation state across channels.

- Define the quality bar for non-deterministic systems, including evals, prompt versioning, guardrails, and drift detection.

- Work full-stack across React/Next.js frontends, Node.js backends, and Python voice services.

##### What We're Looking For

- 3 to 8 years of full-stack engineering experience with a track record of shipping 0-to-1 products at high-growth startups, as a founder, or on new-vertical teams at large tech companies.

- Production proficiency in TypeScript with hands-on experience in Node.js and React/Next.js; this is a hard requirement.

- Demonstrated production experience with LLM APIs or agent SDKs (such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Vercel AI SDK, or Mastra), not just tutorials or prototypes.

- Depth in at least one area: production voice or SMS agents, long-running agent state and memory, B2B2C or marketplace product architecture, or agent evals and guardrails.

- Comfort making independent product decisions and conducting customer discovery without a dedicated product manager.

- Ability to thrive in an ambiguous, early-stage environment and define processes rather than follow them.

- Python experience with real-time voice pipelines (e.g., LiveKit, Deepgram, STT/TTS) or evaluation tooling is a strong bonus.

- Founder experience with verifiable traction (revenue, funding, or acquisition) or strong CS fundamentals are both valued paths.

- No visa sponsorship available; must be authorized to work in the US.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: **$180,000 to $250,000 USD annually**, plus equity. No visa sponsorship is available.

##### Location

On-site, five days per week in **Chelsea, New York City**. Remote work is not available for this role.

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