# Forward Deployed Engineer at Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer at Clera in San Francisco. On-site, full-time, paying $150k–$250k. Posted October 27, 2026.

- Company: Clera
- Location: San Francisco
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $150k–$250k
- Posted: 2026-10-27
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/fe922946-a255-4f3f-8a65-372c8330f958/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/forward-deployed-engineer-clera-va3yb0

## Requirements

- Two to nine years of professional software engineering experience, with a broad background beyond machine learning alone.
- A completed or in-progress bachelor's, master's, or PhD degree in engineering, computer science, or a quantitative field from a strong technical university.
- Experience repeatedly shipping and owning production systems end to end, with demonstrated ability across agent platforms, infrastructure, and integration runtimes.
- Comfort using multiple AI coding agents while applying sound judgment to production quality.
- Experience founding a startup with outside funding or full-time employees, or engineering at an early-stage startup backed by a recognized accelerator or venture capital firm.
- Familiarity with TypeScript, React, Bun, Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, or AWS is relevant to the stack.

## Description

### About the Role

Join an early-stage engineering team building an AI-powered integration platform for businesses. You will own core systems across the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime, helping establish the foundations for the product as it grows.

### What You'll Do

- Build and operate the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end to end.

- Set engineering patterns and practices that support the work of future engineers.

- Work directly with company founders to shape the system and regularly ship production improvements.

### What We're Looking For

- Two to nine years of professional software engineering experience, with a broad background beyond machine learning alone.

- A completed or in-progress bachelor's, master's, or PhD degree in engineering, computer science, or a quantitative field from a strong technical university.

- Experience repeatedly shipping and owning production systems end to end, with demonstrated ability across agent platforms, infrastructure, and integration runtimes.

- Comfort using multiple AI coding agents while applying sound judgment to production quality.

- Experience founding a startup with outside funding or full-time employees, or engineering at an early-stage startup backed by a recognized accelerator or venture capital firm.

- Familiarity with TypeScript, React, Bun, Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, or AWS is relevant to the stack.

### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range: $150,000 to $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic option.

### Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, five days per week. Candidates elsewhere in the United States should have a concrete, dated plan to relocate to San Francisco.