Founding Engineer

Clera

• $150K — $200K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • At least 3 years of experience in shipping production software.
  • Strong full-stack TypeScript skills for user-facing products and core services.
  • Experience with AI agents in production, including failure modes and debugging.
  • Proficient in designing and optimizing high-volume data pipelines.
  • Ability to navigate loosely defined customer problems to delivery.
  • Comfortable working directly with customers in an early-stage team.

Responsibilities

  • Build end-to-end product capabilities from data ingestion to patch generation.
  • Design logic and checks to prevent unsafe changes in customer repositories.
  • Transform customer issues into effective solutions through direct engagement.
  • Make architectural decisions regarding schemas and system tradeoffs.
  • Establish engineering practices for testing, observability, and releases.
  • Collaborate across data pipelines and user-facing experiences as needs evolve.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to be the first full-time engineer in an early-stage team.
  • Direct impact on product development and customer solutions.
  • Engagement with customers to shape product features.
  • Broad ownership of responsibilities in a dynamic environment.
  • On-site work in a collaborative San Francisco office.
Full Job Description
About the Role

Join an early-stage AI/ML developer tooling team as its first full-time engineer outside the founding group. You will build systems that detect failures in AI agent conversations and generate verified fixes, helping customers ship more reliable software.
What You'll Do
  • Build end-to-end product capabilities, from data ingestion and failure detection to patch generation and verification.
  • Design reproduction logic, guardrails, and checks that help prevent unsafe or incorrect changes from reaching customer repositories.
  • Turn customer problems into shipped solutions, working directly with customers to understand traces, production failures, and requirements.
  • Make architectural decisions across schemas, service boundaries, and system tradeoffs.
  • Establish engineering practices for testing, observability, on-call, and releases.
  • Work across data pipelines, detection systems, and user-facing review experiences as product needs evolve.
What We're Looking For
  • At least 3 years of experience shipping production software, with a track record of contributing beyond your core specialty.
  • Strong full-stack TypeScript skills, including experience building user-facing products and core services.
  • Experience building and operating AI agents in production, with an understanding of agent failure modes and debugging.
  • Experience designing and optimizing high-volume data pipelines with attention to cost, observability, monitoring, and production debugging.
  • Ability to independently take loosely defined customer problems through architectural decisions and delivery.
  • Comfort working directly with customers and in an early-stage team with broad ownership.
Compensation & Benefits

The annual salary range is $150,000 to $200,000. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location

On-site in San Francisco, California. The role requires working from the office six days per week.

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