# Founding Engineer - Company: [Clera]() - Location: San Francisco - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $120K – $250K - Posted: August 26, 2026 ## Job description ### About the Role This is a founding engineering role at a YC-backed enterprise AI startup building an agentic operating system that deploys AI agents at scale for businesses. You'll operate with CTO-level ownership — taking vague problems from user insight all the way to production — and directly shape both the product and the company's trajectory. ### What You'll Do * Own large parts of the product end-to-end, from user insight through to production deployment. * Build and continuously improve agentic systems, making them more accurate, reliable, and powerful. * Work at the frontier of AI engineering — context engineering, tool use, and agent architectures. * Talk directly to users, understand their pain points, and scope features that solve real problems. * Ship full-stack when needed, including Go backend and Vite/TypeScript frontend work. * Champion AI-first development practices — coding agents, automation — and scale yourself through them. * Review code quickly while maintaining high standards across the codebase. ### What We're Looking For * Proven ability to own features end-to-end from ideation to production with minimal hand-holding. * Hands-on experience designing and deploying AI-driven systems, including agent architectures, context engineering, and tool use. * Experience ensuring production readiness of AI systems — monitoring, observability, performance tuning, and reliability. * Strong proficiency in **Go** and care for clean, maintainable code; comfortable going full-stack in TypeScript/Vite when needed. * Deep product sense with a track record of building for user outcomes rather than engineering's sake. * Comfort — and enthusiasm — for ambiguity; you don't need a PM to tell you what to build. * Experience building something from scratch (a startup, a meaningful side project, a shipped feature). * Familiarity with modern AI coding paradigms (e.g. coding agents, AI-assisted development tools). * Background in AI research or experience at an AI product/coding startup is a plus. * **US work authorization required** — visa sponsorship is not available. ### Compensation & Benefits * Salary: $120,000 – $250,000 USD annually * Generous equity commensurate with a founding-level role * Visa sponsorship: not available ### Location On-site in **San Francisco, California, USA**. ## Apply [Apply on Clera]() Canonical job page: