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Founding Engineer ($3M pre-seed)

Job Overview

Location

Palo Alto

Job Type

Full-time

Category

Full-Stack Engineer

Date Posted

March 23, 2026

Full Job Description

đź“‹ Description

  • • As Engineer #4 on Clera's founding team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of AI-powered recruiting by building agentic systems that automate end-to-end headhunting workflows for top-tier startups, directly impacting how thousands of talents discover their dream jobs each week in a $600B industry ripe for disruption.
  • • You will ship features to production daily, owning entire product areas from concept to deployment while working closely with the CTO and founding engineers in a high-velocity, collaborative environment where your technical decisions influence product direction and company trajectory.
  • • The team operates from a San Francisco hackerhouse, fostering zero-commute, intense collaboration with A-player engineers who live and build together, enabling 10Ă— faster feedback loops and continuous iteration through real-time customer feedback and rapid prototyping.
  • • You will deepen your expertise in full-stack AI engineering by working with cutting-edge tools like Cursor, LLM APIs, Trigger.dev, and modern TypeScript/React stacks, gaining hands-on experience in building scalable, agentic systems that blend frontend usability with backend automation.
  • • This role offers unparalleled ownership and growth potential: you will transition from rapid prototyping to building for scale and quality, learn to balance speed with sustainability, and emerge as a technical leader in an early-stage startup poised for 10-100Ă— growth, all while receiving meaningful equity and visa support.

🎯 Requirements

  • • Very strong software engineering background with proven experience in TypeScript and React
  • • Strong practical experience working with AI, including coding in Cursor and familiarity with LLM APIs
  • • Startup mindset characterized by high agency, resourcefulness, and obsession with creating customer value

🏖️ Benefits

  • • Meaningful equity in a fast-growing pre-seed startup with top-tier investor backing
  • • Opportunity to be engineer #4 and shape the entire product direction with true ownership and no micromanagement
  • • Live and build in a San Francisco hackerhouse with zero commute, 10Ă— faster feedback loops, and constant collaboration with A-player founders and engineers

Skills & Technologies

TypeScript
React
Onsite

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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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