Founding Agentic Engineer
Clera
- Location
- Onsite (San Francisco, California)
- Compensation
- $150k - $300k/yr
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the Role
Clera is a well-funded startup building a marketplace platform that combines staffing technology with agentic AI. This role involves owning the end-to-end agent layer, including context systems and self-learning pipelines, to automate complex integration workflows at production scale.
Skills
Benefits
- Visa sponsorship
Full job details
About the Role
A well-funded flexible-work / gig-economy platform — operating at the intersection of staffing technology and agentic AI — is looking for a Founding Agentic Engineer to own the agent layer end-to-end. You'll work directly with the CTO as one of the earliest engineers shaping how production-grade AI agents are built, measured, and evolved at scale. This is an implementation-focused role: real agents, real consequences, real production systems.
The company has raised early-stage funding, operates a live marketplace connecting businesses with flexible-workforce professionals, and is now investing heavily in agentic infrastructure to automate complex integration workflows across the real economy. Nobody has shipped this kind of system at production scale yet — you'd be among the first.
What You'll Build
A context and self-learning system — a compounding knowledge base of undocumented systems so that onboarding each new integration client is dramatically faster than the last.
Self-healing workflows — agents that detect failures in production, diagnose root causes, and recover autonomously without human intervention.
A meta-harness — the runtime harness agents run on, plus the layer that lets the team build, evaluate, and ship new agents in days rather than months.
What You'll Do
Own the agent layer end-to-end: context systems, self-learning pipelines, evals, the harness, and the meta-harness.
Define and establish the patterns by which every agent at the company gets built, measured, and continuously improved.
Partner directly with founders as a true peer — experiment rapidly and drive outcomes independently.
Help build the team: contribute to hiring and grow into leading the engineers who own agentic systems as the company scales.
What We're Looking For
Required:
Proven track record shipping production-grade software in fast-moving environments (implementation engineering focus, not purely research).
Strong TypeScript development experience with production-ready code and tooling (familiarity with Effect-TS a plus).
Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL or another relational database in production systems.
Experience with LLMs, agent-based architectures, or agent frameworks — including building and/or evaluating agents.
Experience with evaluation-driven development (evals), self-learning systems, and measuring agent performance in production.
Ability to own complex system components end-to-end and drive outcomes with minimal oversight.
Willingness to contribute to team-building, including hiring and mentoring as the engineering org grows.
Strong collaboration skills; comfortable working directly with founders and cross-functional stakeholders.
Nice to Have:
Prior experience at a high-velocity startup or a large-scale engineering organization (e.g., Amazon, GitHub, or similar).
Familiarity with staffing, logistics, or marketplace platform tech stacks.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary: $150,000 – $300,000 USD annually
Visa sponsorship is available for eligible candidates.
Location
This is an on-site role based in San Francisco, CA. Candidates must be able to work from the San Francisco office. Visa sponsorship is available.