Founding Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and operate core infrastructure for a people-data and AI agent platform. This includes working on APIs, LLM-powered workflows, scraping systems, and knowledge graph architecture.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate core infrastructure powering a people-data and AI agent platform
• Architect and maintain production-grade systems for API requests, performance, cost efficiency, and reliability
• Own projects end-to-end from problem definition through deployment and iteration
• Collaborate directly with the CEO and CTO on technical decisions and roadmap priorities
• Contribute across the stack including developer documentation, technical tutorials, internal tooling, and experimental builds

Required qualifications

• 1+ years of professional experience shipping software to production
• Hands-on experience with APIs, distributed systems, microservices, and data pipelines
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and Linux server environments
• Strong instincts for performance, reliability, and cost-efficient system design
• High agency
• First-principles thinker

Nice to have

• Comfort working with LLMs, AI agents, and knowledge graph or identity resolution systems

Benefits

• Early-stage equity

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is not available for this role

About the company

clera is a seed-stage AI data infrastructure startup in San Francisco building a people-data and agent platform.