Clera

Founding Engineer - Agentic (Senior)

San Francisco, California · On-site · Posted 3 days ago

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Job type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Source
Ashby (employer's hiring system)

About the role

About the Role

We are building an agentic integration platform and are looking for a founding engineer to own the agent layer end to end. You will work closely with the leadership team to ship production systems that enable autonomous, self-improving workflows.

What You'll Do

  • Own the agent layer end to end including context, self-learning, evals, harnesses, and meta-harnesses

  • Define patterns for building, measuring, and evolving agents across the platform

  • Collaborate on hiring and growing a team responsible for agentic systems

  • Work as a peer to founders and drive relentless experimentation and iteration

What We're Looking For

  • 2 to 9 years of relevant software engineering experience with strong CS fundamentals

  • Experience building context or self learning systems to improve agent performance from accumulated knowledge

  • Experience designing autonomous failure detection, diagnosis, or self-healing production workflows

  • Built agentic software in the last year and focused on implementation engineering that ships working systems

  • Background in harness centric agent building, context engineering, and eval driven iteration

  • Deep understanding of agent tracing and evals

  • Strong collaboration skills and ability to operate in a fast moving, hands on IC role

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: 150000-300000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship available for eligible candidates.

Location

Primary location: San Francisco, CA, United States. On site

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