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title: "Founding Engineer (Europe to San Francisco)"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-founding-engineer-europe-to-san-francisco-4a02f6b7-3fc4-4e92-8c03-be006912c40a"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/fbbb638a-5982-4ad0-b1c9-bbc966053e3e"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: software-engineering
region: united-states
date_posted: 2026-09-16T14:03:07.426Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-16T14:35:14.338Z
---

# Founding Engineer (Europe to San Francisco)

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/fbbb638a-5982-4ad0-b1c9-bbc966053e3e

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage AI infrastructure startup building the operating layer for AI-native service businesses: an agentic workforce, a company knowledge layer, a human trust layer, and a unified cockpit to run operations. You will join as a founding team member, shaping the platform from scratch with no legacy code and no pre-written roadmap. The role carries real ownership and real accountability from day one.

##### What You'll Do

- Build the full platform end to end, making architectural and product decisions yourself.

- Talk directly to users, define the right outcomes, and ship to production, without waiting on a ticket.

- Iterate rapidly on agentic AI systems, tooling, and core infrastructure in a very small, high-trust team.

- Own what breaks, diagnose it, and fix it, then raise the bar so it does not break the same way again.

##### What We're Looking For

- A proven builder who has shipped something real to real users and can speak honestly about what broke and how they fixed it.

- A product-engineer mindset: you define the outcome, not just the implementation.

- AI-native: you use AI tooling to write and ship code at a pace that would have looked unreasonable a couple of years ago.

- Intensity and drive, ideally with experience founding something or joining a startup at an early stage.

- Firm commitment to relocating to San Francisco by January 2027, this is a firm requirement, not exploratory.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Competitive salary while based in Europe, switching to a San Francisco-equivalent salary on the day you arrive. Meaningful early equity. Visa sponsorship is fully covered, as is the cost of relocation.

##### Location

On-site. Currently based in Europe, with relocation to San Francisco required by January 2027. The company operates in person in both locations. Visa sponsorship is available.

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