Clera

Agent Engineer

Palo Alto, Remote. Posted 5 days ago

The role

Build reliable, production-ready agent capabilities to help users delegate complex work. This role involves agent systems engineering, platform development, integrations, and full-stack product work.

What you will do

  • Evaluate advances in reasoning, planning, memory, tool use, and agent collaboration.
  • Turn model behaviors into reusable skills and workflows.
  • Build and improve Python agent infrastructure.
  • Design tools and integrations for email, calendars, messaging, browsers, documents, CRMs, and business software.
  • Own capabilities end to end across Python and Django services, APIs, React interfaces, data models, background jobs, observability, and operations.
  • Develop reusable platform abstractions and improve execution latency, cost, reliability, and safety.
  • Use evaluations, production traces, and user feedback to diagnose issues and improve agent behavior.
  • Set technical direction for ambiguous problems and contribute to design reviews and engineering quality.

Required qualifications

  • At least 5 years of experience building, deploying, and operating production software systems end to end.
  • Strong Python skills, including maintainable production code and experience debugging asynchronous systems.
  • Hands-on experience building production agent systems, with knowledge of planning, tool calling, structured outputs, context and state management, retries, and orchestration.
  • Full-stack experience with Django, APIs, React, and TypeScript.
  • Experience building integrations with external APIs and business software platforms.
  • Ability to turn evolving technical capabilities and loosely defined user needs into practical product features.
  • Experience designing reusable platform abstractions and analyzing production traces across models, application code, databases, and APIs.
  • Background working with large language models, prompt engineering, or model evaluation in production.
  • Strong computer science and engineering fundamentals.
  • Clear communication.
  • Track record of ownership and career progression or startup experience.

Nice to have

  • experience optimizing distributed systems for latency, cost, and reliability is helpful

Before you apply

  • Visa sponsorship is not available

About the company

clera