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Founding Engineer - Full Stack at Clera in San Francisco, CA
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Job Description
Summary: Clera is a Y Combinator-backed AI startup building tools that help brands understand and shape how large language models perceive and represent them. The Founding Engineer – Full Stack will own initiatives end-to-end across customer insight, product development, research, and infrastructure while helping establish the engineering culture and practices from the ground up.
Responsibilities:
- Own problems end-to-end — from customer insight and product requirements all the way through research and infrastructure
- Maintain a tight feedback loop with customers and the founding team; ship features quickly and iteratively
- Help define and shape the engineering team's culture, patterns, and best practices
- Continuously explore and reinvent how engineering teams work effectively alongside AI agents
Required Qualifications:
- 1+ years of experience on engineering teams (2+ preferred), including at least one stint longer than 18 months in a strong startup or scale-up environment
- Full-stack proficiency — comfortable owning customer-facing UI through to infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with React, Python, Terraform, and AWS
- Experience building agentic systems or working with LLMs in production
- Strong product sense and design instincts; able to translate customer needs into shippable features
- Startup experience or self-driven personal projects that demonstrate initiative and high agency
- Must be a US citizen or have US work authorization (no visa sponsorship for candidates outside the US)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Scientific or academic research background
- Direct customer-facing experience in a technical role
- Enthusiasm for adopting AI-powered coding and productivity tools
Required Skills: Full-Stack Development, React, Python, Terraform, AWS, Agentic Systems, Large Language Models (LLMs), Product Development, Design Thinking
Benefits: Early-stage equity, Visa sponsorship available for eligible candidates, This role is on-site in San Francisco, CA.