Founding Engineer
Clera · Remote
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join an early-stage AI company as its first engineering hire, working directly with the founder. You will turn a functioning product into scalable infrastructure for AI-powered service businesses, with the opportunity to grow into a CTO role as the company develops.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build scalable agentic infrastructure to support substantial growth in users and workloads.
- Design and operate the agent runtime, including orchestration, memory, and systems for verification.
- Own engineering work end to end across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and AI agents.
- Set the architecture, technology choices, and engineering practices.
- Ship improvements regularly to customers running real businesses on the product.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- At least 2 years of production software experience, or an equivalent record of building and shipping real systems as a founder, solo builder, or exceptional early-career engineer.
- Experience building and operating LLM or AI agent systems used by real customers in production.
- Full-stack range, with the ability to take work from backend and infrastructure through to the user interface.
- Experience scaling a working product, including architecture, data models, runtime, or orchestration.
- Technical ownership in a founder, early-hire, or solo-lead role, with a track record of frequent production releases.
- Agent orchestration, memory, evaluation, verification, or multi-agent workflow experience is valuable; experience in recruiting, agencies, or service delivery is also relevant.
- Based in Europe and open to relocating to San Francisco within the first year.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary is €80,000 to €140,000 annually. Equity is available. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for a move to San Francisco.
LOCATION
Remote in Europe, with relocation to San Francisco expected within the first year.