Founding Engineer

The role

You will combine customer discovery with hands-on full-stack engineering. You will build AI agents for freight operations and turn product demos into production systems.

What you will do

• Lead customer conversations and translate operational needs into product features and technical decisions.
• Design and build full-stack applications while advancing the product's AI capabilities.
• Move prototypes and demos toward scalable, high-quality production systems.
• Help shape product, technology, and company direction through close collaboration with customers and the team.

Required qualifications

• At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications.
• Full-stack experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React, plus Python backend development.
• Hands-on experience building production AI agents or user-facing LLM features, including LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.
• Experience taking products from MVP or prototype through production, with sound architecture judgment and production engineering depth.
• Experience leading customer conversations and translating feedback into product requirements.
• Startup or early-stage experience, with demonstrated product ownership and leadership.
• Recent hands-on product-building experience and a broad product engineering skill set.

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship is available.

About the company

clera is an early-stage logistics technology team building AI agents for freight operations.