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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** AI Powered LLC
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Python (Programming Language), Node.Js, Next.js, TypeScript, Management of Software Versions, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Agentic-AI, Low Latency, Drift Detection
- **Published:** October 14, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/founding-engineer-clera-10445358

## About the Role

* Three to eight years of full-stack engineering experience, including experience shipping early-stage products at startups, as a founder, or on new product teams.
 * Strong production skills in TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js, plus experience building with LLM APIs or agent SDKs.
 * Depth in at least one area: agent state and memory, evaluations and guardrails, B2B2C or marketplace architecture, or production voice and SMS agents.
 * Experience making product decisions, conducting customer discovery, and synthesizing feedback without a dedicated product manager.
 * Python experience with real-time voice pipelines or evaluation tools is valuable. Strong computer science fundamentals and experience with low-latency systems are also relevant.
 * Comfort with ambiguity, rapid iteration, and occasional intense periods around launches or major customer milestones.

## Description

* Own a domain end to end, from system architecture through daily production releases.
 * Join customer calls, gather feedback, and make product decisions independently.
 * Build and optimize multi-channel AI agents, including low-latency voice experiences and persistent 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 backends, and Python services.