# Founding Engineer - Company: [Clera]() - Location: remote - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: September 10, 2026 ## Job description ### About the Role This is the first engineering hire at a solo-founded, freshly funded AI startup building the infrastructure layer for AI-native service businesses. You will work directly with the founder to turn a working agentic product into infrastructure that can hold real scale. This is a first-hire, high-ownership role with a clear path to a CTO seat as the team grows. ### What You'll Do * Rebuild a working product into agentic infrastructure designed to scale to a large user base. * Design and operate the agent runtime, covering orchestration, memory, verification, and the machinery that makes an AI workforce reliable. * Own the full technical surface: backend, infrastructure, frontend, and agents. * Set the technical stack, engineering bar, and the way the team builds, as the person establishing those standards. * Ship to production on a weekly cadence for real businesses running on the platform today. ### What We're Looking For * At least 2 years shipping production software, or an equivalent track record building and shipping real systems as a founder or solo builder. * Hands-on experience building and running LLM or AI agent systems in production, with real users depending on them, not demos or side projects. * Full-stack range: able to take work from backend and infrastructure through to the UI without waiting for a specialist. * Proven ability to turn a working prototype into infrastructure that holds real load, covering architecture, data modelling, runtime, and orchestration. * Experience owning technical decisions without an engineering organisation above you, as a founder, early hire, or solo technical lead. * Founder instincts: prior experience founding or co-founding a company is a strong signal. * Familiarity with agent orchestration, agent memory, evals, verification systems, or multi-agent workflows is a plus. * Strong CS fundamentals, whether from a university background or time at a well-regarded engineering organisation, are a positive signal but never a gate. * Based in Europe and open to relocating to San Francisco within the first year. ### Compensation & Benefits Salary: EUR 90,000 to EUR 140,000 annually. Equity is on the table given the founding-team nature of the role. Relocation support and US visa sponsorship are provided from day one. ### Location Fully remote within Europe to start. Relocation to San Francisco is expected within the first year, with visa sponsorship and relocation assistance provided. ## Apply [Apply on Clera]() Canonical job page: