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Clera

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States

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Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Work
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Level
Mid level
Function
Engineering
Pay
$180K – $250K a year (read from the ad)
Posted
5 days ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $250K a year, is 21% above the median of $206K for mid level engineering jobs in San Francisco (middle half $175K – $265K, 477 jobs that state pay).

5,064 engineering jobs open in San Francisco: 9% remote, 1,040 posted in the last 30 days.

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About the role

About the Role

Join the founding engineering team at an early-stage B2B SaaS company building AI tools for industrial ingredient manufacturers. This hands-on role spans product engineering, backend systems, frontend experiences, infrastructure, and AI agents that help customers process complex operational documents.

What You'll Do

  • Build backend systems that ingest and process documents from customer business systems and inboxes.
  • Develop production AI agents that complete complex, multi-page compliance and food safety documents.
  • Own products end to end, from customer discovery and problem definition through architecture, launch, and iteration.
  • Ship quickly, gather feedback from real users, and improve products based on how they work in practice.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of hands-on production coding.
  • Previous experience as a founder, co-founder, CTO, VP of Engineering, or engineering leader at an early-stage startup, and interest in returning to an individual contributor role.
  • End-to-end ownership of products or major features used by real customers, including experience taking products from 0 to 1.
  • Strong full-stack skills, including the ability to take a feature from backend service through to the user interface.
  • Experience building backend services that process real-world data and designing relational databases such as Postgres.
  • Production experience with AI, LLMs, agents, search, RAG, or automation; document processing and unstructured data extraction are relevant.
  • Familiarity with Kotlin and Spring Boot or another JVM backend, React and Next.js, cloud platforms such as GCP, and production model integrations is helpful. Experience with other stacks is welcome.
  • Interest in fast-moving product development and solving problems in manufacturing, supply chain, or other established industries.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $180,000 to $250,000 annually, plus 0.5% to 1.5% equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

This is a fully on-site role in San Francisco, California.

Source

Posted by Clera on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 11 Nov 2026 04:38 UTC; the original is the reference.

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