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Clera

Founding Agentic Engineer

Clera

Location
Onsite (San Francisco, California)
Compensation
$150k - $300k/yr
Employment
Full-time
Level
Senior Level
Posted 2 days ago

About the Role

Clera is an AI career agent platform connecting candidates with startups backed by top-tier investors. This founding engineering role involves owning the end-to-end agent layer, building self-healing workflows, and setting engineering patterns for production agentic systems.

Skills

Agentic systems TypeScript Effect-TS PostgreSQL LLM tooling Context engineering Self-learning systems Evals Agent harness Production engineering System architecture Software engineering

Full job details

About the Role

This is a founding-level engineering role owning the agent layer end-to-end at a gig economy and flexible staffing platform. You'll work directly with the CTO to build production agentic systems that do real work with real consequences — setting the patterns every future agent at the company will follow. It's an early and high-ownership position at the frontier of applied AI engineering.

What You'll Do

  • Own the full agent layer: context engineering, self-learning systems, evals, the agent harness, and the meta-harness.

  • Build a compounding knowledge base of undocumented systems so each new integration is better than the last.

  • Develop self-healing workflows — agents that detect production failures, diagnose them, and recover autonomously.

  • Build and maintain the harness agents run on, plus the layer that enables building, evaluating, and evolving new agents in days.

  • Set the engineering patterns for how every agent across the platform gets built, measured, and improved.

  • Help hire and eventually lead the team responsible for agentic systems.

  • Work as a peer to the founding team and experiment relentlessly.

What We're Looking For

  • 2–9 years of software engineering experience, with hands-on agentic software built within the last year.

  • Deep familiarity with harness-centric agent building: context engineering and eval-driven iteration.

  • Strong understanding of agent tracing and evals.

  • Implementation-focused engineer who ships working systems in production — not a researcher.

  • Proficiency in TypeScript; experience with Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, and LLM/agent tooling is a strong plus.

  • Background from high-calibre engineering environments is valued.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary: $150,000 – $300,000 USD annually

  • Visa sponsorship: Available

Location

On-site in San Francisco, CA, United States.