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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-a76bf386-3044-45a9-afcb-f6b41e5f8e10"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/3927752d-3bd6-45aa-ac82-e480012f33f1"
workplace: remote
location: "remote"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: software-engineering
region: other
skills: ["llm"]
date_posted: 2026-09-11T13:44:41.510Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T16:29:36.640Z
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# Founding Engineer

**Clera** · remote

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/3927752d-3bd6-45aa-ac82-e480012f33f1

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is the first engineering hire at a freshly funded, solo-founded startup building the infrastructure layer for AI-native service companies. You will work directly with the founder to take a working agentic product and scale it into production infrastructure that can support a million users. If you are the right person, this grows into a CTO seat, with title following the work.

##### What You'll Do

- Rebuild a working product into agentic infrastructure designed to scale to a million users.

- Design and own the agent runtime: orchestration, memory, verification, and the machinery that makes an AI workforce reliable.

- Own work end to end across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and agent systems, whatever the company needs next.

- Set the technical stack, standards, and the way the team builds, as the person defining it from day one.

- Ship weekly to real businesses running on the platform today.

##### What We're Looking For

- At least 2 years shipping production software, or an equivalent track record as a founder or solo builder. Exceptional engineers with less time but stronger output are in scope.

- Hands-on experience building and running LLM or AI agent systems in production, with real users depending on them. Demos and side experiments do not count.

- Full-stack range: able to take work from backend and infrastructure through to the UI without waiting for a specialist.

- Proven ability to turn a working prototype into infrastructure that holds real load, covering architecture, data models, runtime, and orchestration.

- Experience owning technical decisions with no engineering organisation above you, as a founder, early hire, or solo technical lead.

- Comfort with ambiguity, breadth, and a weekly or faster shipping cadence to production users.

- Background as a founder or co-founder is a strong positive signal.

- Familiarity with agent orchestration, agent memory, evals, verification systems, or multi-agent workflows is a plus.

- Strong CS fundamentals from a university or well-known engineering environment are a nice signal, not a gate.

- Based in Europe, open to relocating to San Francisco within the first year.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: EUR 80,000 to EUR 140,000 annually. Relocation support and US visa sponsorship are provided from day one.

##### Location

Fully remote within Europe to start. Relocation to San Francisco is expected within the first year, with visa sponsorship and relocation assistance provided.

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