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# Founding Engineer - Full Stack

- **Company:** CLERA, LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Python (Programming Language), Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Terraform
- **Published:** August 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=f10f13cc6e1691f1

## About the Role

* 1+ years of experience on an engineering team (2+ preferred); includes at least one stint of 18+ months in a strong engineering environment (scale-up or startup).
 * Proficiency with React, Python, Terraform, and AWS.
 * Comfortable working full-stack - from customer-facing UI all the way down to infrastructure.
 * Experience building agentic systems.
 * Strong product sense and design intuition; able to translate customer needs into shipped features.
 * Startup experience or self-driven personal projects that demonstrate initiative and high agency.
 * US citizen or eligible to work in the US (visa sponsorship available).

Nice to Have:

 * Direct experience working with customers.
 * Scientific or AI research background, especially in AI interpretability.
 * Eagerness to adopt and adapt to AI-powered coding tools and emerging engineering workflows.

## Description

Join the founding engineering team of a Y Combinator-backed AI startup building brand intelligence tooling at the intersection of AI research, product, and engineering. This company helps brands understand how large language models perceive and talk about them - and how to shape that narrative. As a Founding Engineer, you'll have outsized ownership and impact, working directly with customers and leadership to ship end-to-end features in a fast-moving environment., * Maintain a close feedback loop with customers and the executive team, shipping quickly and iteratively.

 * Help shape the culture, patterns, and practices of a brand-new engineering team.
 * Continuously reinvent best practices for building alongside AI agents as a core part of the development workflow.


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