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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** AI Powered LLC
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $156,000.0 - $182,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Data Infrastructure, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Relational Databases, Software Debugging, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, TypeScript, Real Time Systems, ReactJS, Generative AI, Backend, Agentic-AI, Fastapi, Real Time Data, Front End Software Development, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/founding-engineer-clera-10320642

## About the Role

* At least 2 years of experience building, shipping, and operating production systems, with approximately 7 years or less of professional experience.
 * Hands-on experience deploying agentic AI systems or LLM-based applications in production, and sound judgment about when to use AI reasoning versus deterministic software.
 * Full-stack capability, with depth in at least one area such as backend engineering, data infrastructure, applied AI, or product engineering.
 * Python backend experience with FastAPI or an equivalent framework, plus TypeScript and React.
 * Experience with ETL, data modeling, SQL, relational database design and optimization, and production monitoring and debugging.
 * Familiarity with AWS, real-time data systems, and streaming updates; experience with modern data tools or edge infrastructure is a plus.
 * Experience in software engineering at an investment firm, including recent AI project work, is required. Capital markets, financial research, or investment banking experience is a plus.
 * Must be a U.S. citizen and able to work on-site in New York City five days per week, either locally or after relocating.

## Description

Join an early-stage team building an AI-powered, source-backed model of the global economy, beginning with healthcare. As a Founding Engineer, you will build the infrastructure, tools, and systems that help AI agents turn diverse data sources into reliable, continuously updated industry research., * Ship features across the frontend, backend infrastructure, and real-time systems.

 * Build data pipelines and tools that help analysts add sources and maintain industry coverage reliably.
 * Improve agent-based parsing and extraction systems, including how they handle complex research tasks.
 * Own work end to end, from data inspection and quality assurance through instrumentation, production releases, and debugging.
 * Develop a company ontology and an initial earnings research product.