Head of Engineering

The role

You will partner with the Founder to define technical strategy and product roadmap. You will write and review code, own backend infrastructure, and build the engineering team and culture.

What you will do

• Partner with the Founder to define and evolve technical strategy and product roadmap
• Write and review code and make architecture calls
• Own and harden backend infrastructure for security and scale
• Establish engineering workflows, principles, and code quality standards
• Lead technical hiring and build engineering culture
• Work cross-functionally with product, science, and design
• Translate product goals into technical decisions through user research and experiment design

Required qualifications

• 2–6 years of experience in fast-moving startup environments
• Former founder or founding engineer with proven experience shipping a consumer product from 0→1
• Hands-on individual contributor comfortable owning end-to-end engineering
• Experience with voice/audio processing and building software products around voice data
• Proficiency in Swift/macOS desktop, iOS, and Python for ML/data pipelines
• Proficiency in cloud backend (AWS or GCP)
• Strong product instincts
• Eligible to work in the United States without visa sponsorship

Nice to have

• Native mobile development (iOS/Android), or managing teams who do
• Hands-on experience with RAG pipelines, agentic systems, or LLM-based products
• Background in consumer health or wellness technology

Benefits

• Full benefits
• Flexible PTO

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is not available

About the company

clera is a seed-stage neurotechnology startup in San Francisco pioneering software-only approaches to cognitive health and performance.