Founding Engineer

Clera

Job Overview

Location

Munich

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage enterprise AI startup based in Munich, Germany.
• The company builds AI-powered automation that learns from real human workflows — studying repetitive, screen-based processes and creating AI solutions that take them over, freeing teams to focus on higher-value work.
• Customers span professional services, insurance, financial services, and customer support, including PE-backed portfolio companies.
• As a Founding Engineer, you will be a core contributor shaping both the product and the technical foundation from the ground up.
• You will work directly with customers, own significant technical decisions, and have meaningful equity in the company.
• This is a high-ownership, high-intensity role suited to someone who thrives in very small, fast-moving teams.
• You will build product features and customer-facing technical tooling end-to-end.
• You will design and implement data pipelines to convert and aggregate large volumes of video (1,000+ hours) and other unstructured data into a structured, queryable data lake.
• You will integrate Large Language Model (LLM) and Vision-Language Model (VLM) pipelines into core product workflows.
• You will develop full-stack components using Python and FastAPI.
• You will collaborate directly with enterprise customers to map processes and identify automation opportunities.
• You will support a land-and-expand go-to-market strategy by enabling scalable integrations across customer tech stacks.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of full-stack engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in Python; hands-on experience building production-ready RESTful APIs with FastAPI in scalable systems
• Deep experience designing and implementing video processing data pipelines and related video analytics workflows
• Experience building data pipelines to convert large volumes of unstructured video data into structured, queryable formats
• Hands-on experience integrating, fine-tuning, and deploying LLMs and VLMs in production pipelines
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and deployment practices
• Early-stage startup experience — comfortable with ambiguity, high ownership, and shaping product direction
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to collaborate across small, cross-functional teams
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers to understand and solve real business problems

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary: €80,000 – €120,000 per year
• Significant equity as a founding team member
• Direct impact on product, architecture, and company direction from day one

Skills & Technologies

Python

FastAPI

REST

Remote

€80k-120k

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About Clera

Clera, Inc. operates as an AI Talent Agent, leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance and streamline various aspects of the talent acquisition and management process. The company's core offering appears to center on an AI-powered platform designed to connect skilled individuals with suitable opportunities or to assist organizations in efficiently sourcing and evaluating candidates. While comprehensive details regarding specific features, target industries, or the scale of its operations are not yet publicly available, the current online presence indicates that Clera's services are actively being prepared for launch. This suggests an upcoming introduction of innovative AI solutions aimed at optimizing the ecosystem where talent meets demand.

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