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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-12620fab-316f-445f-94a2-fd91fd4f6dde"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/c4486b55-6673-4b17-9157-eaec578e0b7f"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["react", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2026-09-10T17:05:03.542Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T16:29:34.147Z
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# Founding Engineer

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/c4486b55-6673-4b17-9157-eaec578e0b7f

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a founding engineering role at a YC-backed enterprise AI startup building an agentic operating system that lets businesses deploy and orchestrate AI agents at scale. You will operate at a CTO-level of ownership, taking vague problems from user insight all the way to production with minimal hand-holding. The work you do here will directly shape the product and the company.

##### What You'll Do

- Own large parts of the product end-to-end, from understanding user pain points to shipping to production.

- Build and improve agentic systems, making them more accurate, reliable, and powerful.

- Work at the frontier of AI engineering across context engineering, tool use, and agent architectures.

- Talk to users regularly to scope features that actually solve real problems.

- Ship full-stack when needed, including React and Vite frontend work.

- Champion AI-first development practices such as coding agents and automation to scale your own output.

- Review code quickly while maintaining high standards across the codebase.

##### What We're Looking For

- 3 or more years of hands-on product engineering experience, with a background in building and shipping, not consulting.

- Strong Go backend engineering skills with an emphasis on clean, maintainable code.

- Full-stack capability, comfortable working in a TypeScript and Vite frontend when needed.

- Proven experience building something from scratch and seeing it through to production.

- Hands-on experience with AI-first development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or coding agents.

- Experience building AI products, ideally agentic systems or AI coding tools.

- Thrives in ambiguity and does not need detailed specs to move forward.

- Former founder experience or an AI research background is a plus.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary between **$120,000 and $250,000 USD annually**, plus generous equity reflecting the outsized impact of this founding role. Visa sponsorship is not available.

##### Location

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

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