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Clera

Founding Engineer

New York, United States

Location
New York, United States
Work
Remote
Employment
Full-time
Level
Not stated
Function
Engineering
Pay
$180K – $250K a year (read from the ad)
Posted
4 days ago

Pay and the market here

The top of this role’s range, $250K a year, is 4% above the median of $240K for engineering jobs in New York (middle half $200K – $300K, 3,245 jobs that state pay).

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI company building multimodal agents for customer conversations across voice, SMS, and email. You will own a core product or engineering domain end to end, working closely with customers and the team to shape the product and bring improvements into production.

What You'll Do

  • Own a product or infrastructure domain from architecture through daily production releases.
  • Speak with customers, synthesize feedback, and make product decisions without a dedicated product manager.
  • Build and optimize multimodal agents, including low-latency voice experiences and persistent conversation state across channels.
  • Set quality practices for non-deterministic systems, including evaluations, prompt versioning, guardrails, and drift detection.
  • Work across React and Next.js frontends, Node.js backends, and Python services.

What We're Looking For

  • Three to eight years of full-stack engineering experience, with a track record of shipping and scaling products from early development into broader use.
  • Production proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Next.js, plus experience building Python services.
  • Hands-on experience shipping production systems with LLM APIs or agent SDKs.
  • Depth in at least one area: production voice or SMS agents, long-running agent state and memory, agent evaluations and guardrails, or B2B2C and marketplace products.
  • Experience making independent product decisions, conducting customer discovery, and owning projects through launch.
  • Strong AI or agentic systems experience, including work with low-latency requirements and unpredictable system behavior. Voice pipeline or evaluation tooling experience is useful.
  • Comfort working in an early-stage environment with changing priorities and limited process.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $180,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site, five days per week in New York, New York.

Source

Posted by Clera on their own hiring page, jobs.ashbyhq.com. OptiTalent shows it as published, read 09 Nov 2026 15:12 UTC; the original is the reference.

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