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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-0dca5701-1524-45c5-8d0b-caa0dc8895d9"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/70f85193-28a1-4c39-ab97-a9be881ed65b"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
date_posted: 2026-09-23T00:45:10.535Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-23T01:10:59.050Z
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# Founding Engineer

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/70f85193-28a1-4c39-ab97-a9be881ed65b

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a founding engineering role at an AI-native fintech company building autonomous systems to manage complex financial transactions end-to-end. You will own the technical core of a product that coordinates multi-party financial workflows, models businesses, and reasons about markets at scale. Your decisions will define the architecture and capabilities of the platform from day one.

##### What You'll Do

- Build intelligence that models businesses, reconciles contradictory evidence, and reasons about how decisions propagate through companies and markets.

- Design and ship agents that coordinate months of financial work across hundreds of counterparties, preserving context, commitments, and dependencies as conditions change.

- Own end-to-end architecture, evaluations, infrastructure, and product interfaces for complex AI systems.

- Help select technical teammates and establish engineering and operating standards for the team.

- Move fluidly across backend systems, applied AI, and product interfaces to turn ambiguous problems into working products.

##### What We're Looking For

- 8 or more years of experience shipping difficult, production-grade systems and owning critical technical decisions.

- Deep expertise in applied AI, including building intelligent agents and models for complex business processes.

- Experience with AI components such as retrieval, memory systems, and evaluation frameworks, especially in data-intensive environments.

- Proven ability to own end-to-end architecture and infrastructure for complex AI systems.

- Full-stack AI engineering capability: comfortable working across backend, applied AI, and product layers.

- Strong commitment to engineering craftsmanship, system reliability, and measuring whether systems actually work.

- Experience building in greenfield or first-principles environments is a strong plus.

- Background in financial services, investment banking, or other complex professional workflows is an advantage.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: **$180,000 to $300,000 USD annually.** Equity included. Visa sponsorship is not available.

##### Location

On-site in **San Francisco, CA, United States.**

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