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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-e2005ba8-f1b7-4fb5-bac9-70bcd469b89c"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/6b0bf447-d9d1-4f8e-ab1d-1a9f2f8ac2a9"
workplace: remote
location: "New York"
remote_scope: "New York"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
date_posted: 2026-09-22T17:14:21.705Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-22T17:22:44.830Z
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# Founding Engineer

**Clera** · New York

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/6b0bf447-d9d1-4f8e-ab1d-1a9f2f8ac2a9

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a founding engineering seat at an early-stage AI startup in the sports and sales automation space, joining a small team building multi-modal AI agents across voice, SMS, and email. You will own one of four core domains end-to-end, making product decisions directly alongside customers with no dedicated PM. The company reached seven figures of ARR within its first several months, and this role offers a clear path into leadership or a deep IC track.

##### What You'll Do

- Own an entire product domain from architecture through daily production feature shipping.

- 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 persistent conversation state across channels.

- Define the architecture and 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 in new vertical teams at large tech companies.

- Strong proficiency in TypeScript with production experience using Node.js, React, and Next.js.

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

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

- Proven ability to conduct customer discovery calls and make product decisions without a dedicated PM.

- Comfort operating without structure, defining processes from scratch, and sustaining high intensity during launches.

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

- Familiarity with infrastructure tools such as Redis, BullMQ, Vercel, Render, Sentry, or PostHog is a plus.

- Founder experience with verifiable traction (revenue, funding, or acquisition) is a plus, as are strong CS fundamentals from a rigorous program.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: **$180,000 to $250,000 USD annually.** Equity is available given the founding nature of the role. Visa sponsorship is not available.

##### Location

On-site, five days per week in **New York City, New York, USA** (Chelsea area).

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