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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** AI Native LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $300,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Reliability of Systems, Backend
- **Published:** September 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/founding-engineer-clera-10159544

## About the Role

* 8 or more years of experience shipping difficult, production-grade systems and owning critical technical decisions.
 * Deep expertise in applied AI, including building intelligent agents and models for complex business processes.
 * Experience with AI components such as retrieval, memory systems, and evaluation frameworks, especially in data-intensive environments.
 * Proven ability to own end-to-end architecture and infrastructure for complex AI systems.
 * Full-stack AI engineering capability: comfortable working across backend, applied AI, and product layers.
 * Strong commitment to engineering craftsmanship, system reliability, and measuring whether systems actually work.
 * Experience building in greenfield or first-principles environments is a strong plus.
 * Background in financial services, investment banking, or other complex professional workflows is an advantage.

## Description

This is a founding engineering role at an AI-native fintech company building autonomous systems to manage complex financial transactions end-to-end. You will own the technical core of a product that coordinates multi-party financial workflows, models businesses, and reasons about markets at scale. Your decisions will define the architecture and capabilities of the platform from day one., * Build intelligence that models businesses, reconciles contradictory evidence, and reasons about how decisions propagate through companies and markets.

 * Design and ship agents that coordinate months of financial work across hundreds of counterparties, preserving context, commitments, and dependencies as conditions change.
 * Own end-to-end architecture, evaluations, infrastructure, and product interfaces for complex AI systems.
 * Help select technical teammates and establish engineering and operating standards for the team.
 * Move fluidly across backend systems, applied AI, and product interfaces to turn ambiguous problems into working products.


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