Clera
Founding Engineer
San Francisco. Posted 5 months ago
The role
You will build across the full application and work directly with the founding team. You will design systems for memory, retrieval, proactivity, and AI responsiveness while integrating real-time video and audio models.
What you will do
- Build across the full application
- Collaborate with the founder, design team, and other engineers
- Design and implement systems for memory, retrieval, proactivity, and AI responsiveness
- Integrate real-time video generation and audio synthesis models
- Set the bar for engineering quality
- Play an active role in recruiting talent
- Extensively use the product
Required qualifications
- Computer Science degree from a top university
- 2–7 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong CS fundamentals
- Track record of technically complex side projects
- High energy
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Proficiency in Python, including typed scientific Python
Nice to have
- Experience with real-time media, vision/video model training or deployment, memory systems, or audio synthesis
- Familiarity with agentic coding or AI-assisted development workflows
- Prior startup or fast-moving environment experience
Benefits
- Visa sponsorship available
About the company
clera is an early-stage consumer AI startup building a real-time AI-enabled platform designed to digitize human connection.