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title: "Founding Engineer, NLP Systems & Infrastructure"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-founding-engineer-nlp-systems-infrastructure-c484ad87-60aa-4c60-b8f6-e997526f3fad"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/8359bad3-44c6-46fc-a037-7422566d0946"
workplace: onsite
location: "Munich"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: ai-machine-learning
region: europe
skills: ["nlp"]
date_posted: 2026-09-22T18:04:04.153Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-22T18:12:12.064Z
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# Founding Engineer, NLP Systems & Infrastructure

**Clera** · Munich

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/8359bad3-44c6-46fc-a037-7422566d0946

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a first engineering hire at a deep-tech startup building graph-native infrastructure for narrative intelligence, serving media organisations, public-sector bodies, and corporations facing information-manipulation threats. You will take a research-grade prototype to production and, shortly after, build and lead the engineering team that grows alongside the product.

##### What You'll Do

- Own the production architecture end-to-end: orchestrated data and NLP pipelines, AI/ML integrations, CI/CD, observability, and deployment options spanning cloud and on-premises environments.

- Drive the engineering roadmap, balancing speed, quality, and security requirements for enterprise and public-sector customers.

- Develop the first production slice hands-on and validate infrastructure and security design decisions directly.

- Hire, build, and manage a high-performing engineering team as the company scales.

- Set architecture direction, enforce engineering standards, and foster a healthy team culture as the technical leader.

- Collaborate closely with the founders and users in a fast-moving, tight-knit on-site team.

##### What We're Looking For

- Strong Python skills with production-quality habits: automated testing, CI/CD, and observability including data and model drift monitoring.

- Proven experience building and operating data-intensive or NLP systems in production: ingestion, deduplication, entity resolution, async queue processing, and orchestrated pipelines (Dagster, Prefect, Airflow, Temporal, or similar).

- Solid experience with PostgreSQL and at least one of: graph databases, vector stores, or search engines.

- Comfortable with embeddings, vector search, and integrating language models while managing cost, versioning, and non-determinism.

- Able to work across the full stack when needed, including building clean APIs and functional analyst-facing UIs (React, Vue, or similar).

- Willing and eligible to obtain a security clearance.

- Prior experience at an early-stage startup.

- German language skills (spoken and written).

- Bonus: experience acquiring and ingesting discourse data from platforms and the open web at scale, with awareness of the legal and ethical constraints involved.

- Bonus: experience packaging systems for customer-hosted deployment (Docker, Kubernetes/Helm).

##### Compensation & Benefits

- Salary range: 60,000 to 120,000 EUR annually, depending on experience.

- Visa sponsorship is available.

##### Location

On-site in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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