Founding Engineer

The role

You will own a product or infrastructure domain from architecture through daily production releases. You will build and optimize multimodal agents for voice, SMS, and email.

What you will do

• Own a product or infrastructure domain from architecture through daily production releases
• Speak with customers, synthesize feedback, and make product decisions
• Build and optimize multimodal 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 frontends, Node.js backends, and Python services

Required qualifications

• Three to eight years of full-stack engineering experience
• Track record of shipping and scaling products from early development into broader use
• Production proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js
• Experience building Python services
• Hands-on experience shipping production systems with LLM APIs or agent SDKs
• Depth in at least one area: production voice or SMS agents, long-running agent state and memory, agent evaluations and guardrails, or B2B2C and marketplace products
• Experience making independent product decisions, conducting customer discovery, and owning projects through launch
• Strong AI or agentic systems experience, including work with low-latency requirements and unpredictable system behavior
• Comfort working in an early-stage environment with changing priorities and limited process

Nice to have

• Voice pipeline or evaluation tooling experience

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is not available

About the company

clera is an early-stage AI company building multimodal agents for customer conversations across voice, SMS, and email.