Clera
Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed)
About this role
Join Clera as engineer #4 to build AI-powered recruiting automation that's disrupting a $600B industry. You'll have full ownership of product areas, ship daily, and work directly with founders in a San Francisco hackerhouse environment with early-stage traction and top-tier backing.
What you'll do
- Own entire product features from concept through production deployment
- Build and iterate on AI agent systems that automate recruiting workflows
- Collaborate directly with CTO and founding engineers on technical direction
- Engage with customers to gather feedback and drive product decisions
- Ship code rapidly while balancing speed with scalability and quality
- Contribute to core platform architecture using TypeScript, React, and LLM APIs
What they're looking for
- TypeScript and React development
- Practical AI/LLM API integration experience
- Full-stack software engineering
- AI-assisted coding tools (Cursor)
- High ownership and agency mindset
- Customer-focused iteration
- Startup adaptability and resourcefulness
Benefits
- Significant equity as early founding engineer
- Competitive salary
- San Francisco hackerhouse living and working arrangement
- Direct impact on product strategy and company direction
- Visa sponsorship support
- Work alongside experienced founders and A-player team
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Clera
Clera builds an agentic operating system that automates complex workflows and processes through AI agents, with a platform designed to simplify distributed infrastructure management for developers. The company is hiring Founding Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Product Engineers to develop both backend systems and user-facing interfaces across their AI automation products.
View all jobs at CleraLikely interview questions
- Walk us through a project where you built with AI tools like Cursor. How did it change your development workflow, and what were the tradeoffs?
- Describe your experience working with LLM APIs in production. What challenges did you face integrating them into a real product?