Clera
Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed)
About this role
Join Clera as engineer #4 to build AI-powered recruiting automation at a pre-seed startup with $3M funding. You'll own full product areas, ship daily, and help disrupt a $600B industry alongside experienced founders and A-player engineers in a San Francisco hackerhouse.
What you'll do
- Ship production features daily and own entire product areas from concept to deployment
- Build agentic AI systems that automate complex recruiting workflows
- Work directly with CTO and founding engineers on product direction and technical decisions
- Iterate on product based on customer feedback and market needs
- Scale systems from early traction to handle growth and increased quality demands
- Collaborate closely with team in shared hackerhouse environment
What they're looking for
- TypeScript and React
- Experience coding with AI tools (Cursor)
- LLM APIs and AI integration
- Full-stack development (Supabase, Prisma, Typesense)
- Product ownership and entrepreneurial mindset
- Fast prototyping and iteration
- Customer engagement and feedback incorporation
- Startup execution and resourcefulness
Benefits
- Meaningful equity stake
- Competitive salary
- Full product ownership and decision-making authority
- Zero-commute hackerhouse setup in San Francisco
- Work with experienced founders and A-player team
- Visa sponsorship support
- Daily shipping to production with high impact
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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 tooling like Cursor. How did it change your development workflow, and what were the tradeoffs between moving fast and code quality?
- Tell us about your experience integrating with LLM APIs. What was challenging, and how did you handle prompt engineering or token optimization in production?