Founding Engineer - Agentic (Senior)
Clera · San Francisco
- Location
- San Francisco
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Funding
- $3M
- Posted
- Sep 21, 2026
Clera is hiring a Founding Engineer - Agentic (Senior) based in San Francisco. Every apply link on Engg.space goes straight to the company's own careers page - no recruiter middleman, no generic job-board form.
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ABOUT THE ROLE We are building an agentic integration platform and are looking for a founding engineer to own the agent layer end to end. You will work closely with the leadership team to ship production systems that enable autonomous, self-improving workflows. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own the agent layer end to end including context, self-learning, evals, harnesses, and meta-harnesses - Define patterns for building, measuring, and evolving agents across the platform - Collaborate on hiring and growing a team responsible for agentic systems - Work as a peer to founders and drive relentless experimentation and iteration WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 2 to 9 years of relevant software engineering experience with strong CS fundamentals - Experience building context or self learning systems to improve agent performance from accumulated knowledge - Experience designing autonomous failure detection, diagnosis, or self-healing production workflows - Built agentic software in the last year and focused on implementation engineering that ships working systems - Background in harness centric agent building, context engineering, and eval driven iteration - Deep understanding of agent tracing and evals - Strong collaboration skills and ability to operate in a fast moving, hands on IC role COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Salary range: 150000-300000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship available for eligible candidates. LOCATION Primary location: San Francisco, CA, United States. On site
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