# Founding Engineer at Clera

Founding Engineer at Clera in New York. Remote, full-time, paying $180k–$250k. Posted October 28, 2026.

- Company: Clera
- Location: New York
- Workplace: Remote
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $180k–$250k
- Posted: 2026-10-28
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/db9550e2-0cc0-444c-8e0a-5ab8fab08dd3/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/founding-engineer-clera-w4v7hg

## Requirements

- Three to eight years of full-stack engineering experience, with a record of shipping and scaling products from early stages in fast-paced environments.
- Production proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js, plus experience building Python services.
- Hands-on production experience with LLM APIs or agent SDKs, such as Anthropic, OpenAI, or comparable tools.
- Strong depth in at least one area: production voice or SMS agents, long-running agent state and memory, agent evaluations and guardrails, or B2B2C and marketplace products.
- Experience making product decisions, conducting customer discovery, and owning shipped work without relying on a dedicated product manager.
- Understanding of backend infrastructure and data structures for persistent conversations, as well as low-latency systems and non-deterministic behavior.
- Python experience with real-time voice pipelines or evaluation tooling is useful. Strong computer science fundamentals or founder experience with demonstrated product traction are also valued.

## Description

### About the Role

Join a small team building multimodal AI agents for customer communication across voice, SMS, and email. You will own a core product or engineering domain end to end, shape decisions directly with customers, and help bring reliable AI systems into production.

### What You'll Do

- Own a domain from architecture through frequent production releases.

- Speak with customers, synthesize feedback, and make product decisions independently.

- Build and optimize multimodal agents, including low-latency voice experiences and persistent, cross-channel conversation state.

- Set quality practices for non-deterministic systems, including evaluations, prompt versioning, guardrails, and drift detection.

- Work across React and Next.js interfaces, Node.js services, and Python systems.

### What We're Looking For

- Three to eight years of full-stack engineering experience, with a record of shipping and scaling products from early stages in fast-paced environments.

- Production proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js, plus experience building Python services.

- Hands-on production experience with LLM APIs or agent SDKs, such as Anthropic, OpenAI, or comparable tools.

- Strong depth in at least one area: production voice or SMS agents, long-running agent state and memory, agent evaluations and guardrails, or B2B2C and marketplace products.

- Experience making product decisions, conducting customer discovery, and owning shipped work without relying on a dedicated product manager.

- Understanding of backend infrastructure and data structures for persistent conversations, as well as low-latency systems and non-deterministic behavior.

- Python experience with real-time voice pipelines or evaluation tooling is useful. Strong computer science fundamentals or founder experience with demonstrated product traction are also valued.

### Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $180,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

### Location

On-site, five days per week in New York, New York.