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title: "Founding Engineer - Agentic"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-founding-engineer-agentic-774e69bb-6423-4e38-a140-8c0c7ee3b6a6"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/08b06620-6938-479f-b0af-2b547b9740dd"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
skills: ["llm", "postgres", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2026-09-13T17:29:13.073Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T16:29:34.147Z
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# Founding Engineer - Agentic

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/08b06620-6938-479f-b0af-2b547b9740dd

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a founding-level engineering role at a seed-stage flexible workforce marketplace, sitting directly alongside the CTO to own the entire agent layer end-to-end. You will set the patterns for how every agent in the platform gets built, measured, and improved, working on production systems with real-world consequences at scale. This is a rare opportunity to define the architecture of agentic software in a domain where no one has fully solved it yet.

##### What You'll Do

- Own the full agent layer: context engineering, self-learning systems, evals, the agent harness, and the meta-harness.

- Build a compounding knowledge base of undocumented systems so that each new integration gets faster and better than the last.

- Design and ship self-healing workflows where agents detect, diagnose, and autonomously recover from production failures.

- Build and maintain the meta-harness that lets the team create, evaluate, and evolve new agents in days.

- Set engineering patterns that every future agent on the platform follows.

- Help hire and grow the agentic engineering team over time.

- Work as a peer to the founding team and experiment relentlessly.

##### What We're Looking For

- 2 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience, with a hands-on individual contributor focus.

- Completed or in-progress engineering, computer science, or quantitative degree from a strong technical university.

- Prior experience at an early-stage, venture-backed startup, whether as a founder or an early engineer. A background exclusively in large enterprises or big tech does not fit this role.

- Proven experience building agentic software within the past year. This field moves fast and recent hands-on work is essential.

- Experience building context or self-learning systems that improve agent performance through accumulated knowledge.

- Experience building autonomous failure detection, diagnosis, or self-healing production workflows.

- Deep understanding of agent tracing, evals, and eval-driven iteration.

- Comfortable building reusable agent harnesses or meta-harnesses for rapidly creating and evolving agents.

- Strong implementation focus: you ship working systems in production, not research prototypes.

- Proficiency with TypeScript and PostgreSQL; familiarity with LLMs and agent frameworks is expected.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: **$150,000 to $300,000 USD annually.** Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic path.

##### Location

On-site five days a week in **San Francisco, CA.** Candidates currently based elsewhere in the US are welcome with a concrete, dated relocation plan to San Francisco.

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