- Clera
- San Francisco, CA
- Full-Time
- 24 days ago
Founding Engineer.
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Founding Engineer: our view in 3 lines...
- The Role:This is a founding engineering role at an enterprise AI startup for someone who can take product ideas from user insight to production.
- The Person:The person will own product areas end to end, talk directly to users, build and improve agentic systems, ship full stack when needed, and maintain code quality and production reliability.
- Requirements:The role requires Go, a Go backend, Vite and TypeScript frontend work, AI-driven systems, agent architectures, context engineering, tool use, multi-agent architectures, monitoring, observability, performance tuning, and reliability.
About the role
About the Role
This is a founding engineering role at a YC-backed enterprise AI startup building an agentic operating system that enables businesses to deploy and orchestrate AI agents at scale. You'll operate with CTO-level ownership — taking vague problems from user insight all the way to production — and play a direct hand in shaping both the product and the company. The role matters because the systems you build will power how enterprises automate complex, real-world workflows.
What You'll Do
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Own large product areas end-to-end, from user research and scoping through to production deployment.
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Build and continuously improve agentic systems, making them more accurate, reliable, and powerful.
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Work at the frontier of AI engineering — context engineering, tool use, and multi-agent architectures.
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Talk directly to users, understand their pain points, and scope features that solve real problems.
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Ship full-stack when needed across a Go backend and Vite/TypeScript frontend.
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Champion AI-first development practices — coding agents, automation, and relentless self-scaling.
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Review code quickly and maintain high standards across the codebase.
What We're Looking For
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Demonstrated ability to own features end-to-end with minimal hand-holding, from ideation to production.
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Hands-on experience designing and deploying AI-driven systems — agent architectures, context engineering, and tool use.
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Strong track record of production readiness: monitoring, observability, performance tuning, and reliability.
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Deep product sense with a history of building for user outcomes, not just clean code.
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Proficiency in Go and care for clean, maintainable backend code; comfort going full-stack when needed.
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Experience with modern AI development tooling (e.g., LLM-assisted coding, coding agents, AI-native workflows).
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Thrives in ambiguity — you don't need a PM to tell you what to build next.
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Prior experience building something from scratch (startup, founding role, or significant side project) is a strong plus.
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US work authorization required — visa sponsorship is not available.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary $120,000–$250,000 USD annually, plus generous equity reflecting the founding-level impact of the role. Unlimited AI tooling budget included.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, USA.
