# Founding Engineer - Company: [Clera]() - Location: New York - Remote: Yes - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $156K – $182K - Posted: September 9, 2026 ## Job description ### About the Role This is a founding engineering role at a Y Combinator-backed, AI-native financial research startup focused on the healthcare sector. You will be one of the first engineers on a three-person team, owning the infrastructure, tooling, and agentic systems that power a continuously updated model of entire industries for professional investors. What you build here directly shapes the product and the company. ### What You'll Do * Work across the full stack, shipping frontend features, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure. * Build data pipelines and internal tooling that let analysts onboard new sources and maintain sector coverage faster and more reliably. * Improve agentic parsing and extraction systems, making AI agents more capable and reliable. * Own work end to end: inspecting data, QAing builds, instrumenting, shipping, and fixing issues in production. * In your first days, add a new information source and ship a measurable improvement to system speed or reliability. * Within 30 days, build a company ontology and deliver the first version of a core product feature. ### What We're Looking For * At least 2 and no more than approximately 7 years of experience building, shipping, and operating production systems end to end. * Hands-on experience building and deploying agentic AI or LLM-based applications in production. * Full-stack capability: Python backend development with FastAPI or equivalent, TypeScript and React on the frontend. * Data infrastructure and pipeline experience, including ETL, data modeling, and SQL. * Database design and optimization with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases. * Production observability, monitoring, and debugging of distributed systems. * AWS cloud infrastructure and deployment experience. * Experience with real-time data systems and streaming updates. * Strong judgment about when AI agents should reason versus when deterministic logic should take over. * Deep ownership mentality and comfort working in a fast-moving, ambiguous early-stage environment. * Must be a US citizen or have a valid US work visa; no sponsorship available. * Bonus: capital markets, equity research, or broader financial services domain experience. * Bonus: familiarity with modern data tools such as dbt, columnar databases, or vector search, and edge computing infrastructure. ### Compensation & Benefits Salary range: **$156,000 to $182,000 USD annually.** Visa sponsorship is not available. ### Location On-site in **New York City, New York, United States**, five days per week. Candidates must already be local or willing to relocate. ## Apply [Apply on Clera]() Canonical job page: