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Founding Agentic Engineer

Clera
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 16 days
Location

San Francisco, CA, US

Salary

$150,000 - $300,000 per year

Contract type

Full Time

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  • This is a founding-level engineering role at an agentic integration platform focused on real economy applications.
  • Candidates must have hands-on experience building agentic software within the last year and a strong understanding of harness-centric agent development.
  • The position offers a salary range of $150,000 to $300,000 USD annually, depending on experience.
  • The role involves owning the full agent layer, setting standards for agent construction, and contributing to team hiring and leadership.
  • This on-site position is located in San Francisco, CA, with no remote work options available.

About the Role

This is a founding-level engineering role at an agentic integration platform serving the real economy. The company's agents perform real work with real consequences inside production systems — think shift-based staffing, logistics, and flexible labor markets. You will own the agent layer end-to-end, working directly with the CTO as a peer from day one. This is a rare opportunity to build production-scale agentic systems at a moment when very few teams have shipped them.

What You'll Build

  • A context and self-learning system: A compounding knowledge base of undocumented integrations, so that connecting the 1,000th company is dramatically better than connecting the first.

  • Self-healing workflows: Agents that autonomously detect, diagnose, and recover from production failures without human intervention.

  • A meta-harness: The runtime harness that agents execute on, plus the tooling layer that enables the team to build, evaluate, and ship new agents in days.

What You'll Do

  • Own the full agent layer: context engineering, self-learning, evals, harness architecture, and meta-harness design.

  • Set the patterns and standards for how every agent at the company is built, measured, and continuously improved.

  • Experiment relentlessly alongside founders and help shape the technical direction of the product.

  • Contribute to hiring and eventually grow into leading the team responsible for agentic systems.

What We're Looking For

Required:

  • Hands-on experience building agentic software within the last year — this field moves fast and recency matters.

  • Deep familiarity with harness-centric agent development: context engineering and eval-driven iteration.

  • Strong understanding of agent tracing and evaluation frameworks.

  • An implementation-first mindset — you ship working systems in production, not research prototypes.

  • Comfort with the tech stack: TypeScript, Effect-TS, PostgreSQL, and LLMs / agent frameworks.

Nice to Have:

  • Prior experience at a high-caliber engineering organization (e.g., large tech, top-tier consulting, or developer tooling).

  • Background working on integration platforms, workflow automation, or marketplace infrastructure.

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary: $150,000 – $300,000 USD annually, depending on experience.

  • Founding engineer equity participation.

  • Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

This role is on-site in San Francisco, CA. Remote work is not available for this position.




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