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title: "Founding Forward Deployed Engineer"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-founding-forward-deployed-engineer-df6bf27b-c1b4-4510-9dd4-536369a534c9"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/fa22b13d-039b-48e2-b258-bb9ce51e174e"
workplace: onsite
location: "Berlin"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: founding
role: customer-support
region: europe
skills: ["azure", "llm", "nodejs", "python", "react", "typescript"]
date_posted: 2026-09-19T17:10:02.123Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-19T17:14:37.357Z
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# Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

**Clera** · Berlin

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/fa22b13d-039b-48e2-b258-bb9ce51e174e

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a founding-team engineering role at an early-stage construction technology AI startup, sitting at the intersection of engineering and customer success. You will own AI automation use cases end-to-end, from scoping problems with enterprise customers through to shipping production-ready solutions, and have real influence over product direction and company culture from day one.

##### What You'll Do

- Own AI automation use cases end-to-end, from customer discovery through production deployment.

- Turn ambiguous enterprise customer problems into scoped, buildable solutions and ship them quickly.

- Build with modern applied AI, including LLMs, agentic workflows, vision models, and embeddings, to solve high-impact problems.

- Design and implement data pipelines for document ingestion, extraction, validation, and orchestration.

- Identify recurring patterns across projects and codify them into reusable, scalable templates.

- Balance speed, accuracy, and pragmatism, knowing when to keep humans in the loop.

- Visit customers on-site and work directly with German-speaking enterprise stakeholders to gather requirements.

- Help shape the technical direction of both the product and the company as an early hire.

##### What We're Looking For

- 2 or more years of experience as a software engineer or data scientist building production systems.

- Hands-on experience deploying applied AI solutions (LLMs, agentic workflows, vision models, embeddings) in production.

- Strong CS fundamentals, through a degree or clearly equivalent formal grounding.

- Full-stack capability: backend API development in Node.js/TypeScript or Python, and frontend development in TypeScript/React or similar.

- Experience designing data pipelines for document processing, extraction, and validation with unstructured data (PDFs, images, documents).

- Experience with vector databases, semantic search, or domain ontologies.

- Comfortable integrating multiple LLM providers (such as OpenAI, Azure, Gemini, or Cohere) and writing effective prompts.

- Proven ability to own problems end-to-end, from requirements gathering through deployment.

- B2B experience with enterprise stakeholders, and a background in early-stage startups or founding teams.

- C1-level German proficiency or above (this is a customer-facing role with German enterprise clients).

- Comfortable with travel to customer sites and working fully on-site in Berlin five days a week.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: **72,000 to 100,000 EUR annually**. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

##### Location

On-site, five days per week in **Berlin, Germany**, with occasional travel to customer sites across the country.

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