# Founding Engineer - Company: [Clera]() - Location: San Francisco - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $120K – $250K - Posted: September 10, 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 lets businesses deploy and orchestrate AI agents at scale. You will operate at a CTO-level of ownership, taking vague problems from user insight all the way to production with minimal hand-holding. The work you do here will directly shape the product and the company. ### What You'll Do * Own large parts of the product end-to-end, from understanding user pain points to shipping to production. * Build and improve agentic systems, making them more accurate, reliable, and powerful. * Work at the frontier of AI engineering across context engineering, tool use, and agent architectures. * Talk to users regularly to scope features that actually solve real problems. * Ship full-stack when needed, including React and Vite frontend work. * Champion AI-first development practices such as coding agents and automation to scale your own output. * Review code quickly while maintaining high standards across the codebase. ### What We're Looking For * 3 or more years of hands-on product engineering experience, with a background in building and shipping, not consulting. * Strong Go backend engineering skills with an emphasis on clean, maintainable code. * Full-stack capability, comfortable working in a TypeScript and Vite frontend when needed. * Proven experience building something from scratch and seeing it through to production. * Hands-on experience with AI-first development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or coding agents. * Experience building AI products, ideally agentic systems or AI coding tools. * Thrives in ambiguity and does not need detailed specs to move forward. * Former founder experience or an AI research background is a plus. ### Compensation & Benefits Base salary between **$120,000 and $250,000 USD annually**, plus generous equity reflecting the outsized impact of this founding role. Visa sponsorship is not available. ### Location On-site in **San Francisco, California, United States**. ## Apply [Apply on Clera]() Canonical job page: