Founding Engineer

Clera

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• A well-funded, seed-stage startup building graph-native context and memory infrastructure for AI agents is hiring 2–3 Founding Engineers to work on the core platform.
• This is not a feature factory role. You will own significant pieces of the system — query engine, storage layer, graph internals — and make architecture decisions that will shape the product for the next decade.
• You'll work directly with the founding team, and your name will be on the design docs and the pull requests in the same week.
• The company builds a GraphDB on object storage, purpose-built for modern AI workloads.
• The platform delivers precise, structured, and temporally-aware context to AI agents via a tiered storage architecture (in-memory, NVMe SSD, object storage), semantic search, git-style temporal versioning, and entity resolution.
• The company is backed by prominent investors and researchers in AI and infrastructure and has reached Series A/B-equivalent seed funding.
• You will own and ship core infrastructure: query execution engine, graph storage layer, and distributed systems components.
• You will make architecture decisions with long-term product impact alongside the founding team.
• You will contribute to benchmark and research work that defines the technical category.
• You will participate in architecture reviews and navigate hard technical trade-offs with real production consequences.
• You will help raise the technical ceiling as the team scales.

🎯 Requirements

• Proficiency in Rust or Go with hands-on experience building distributed systems.
• Experience designing and shipping core infrastructure components — query engine, storage layer, or graph internals — in a production environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary: $160,000 – $270,000 USD annually.
• Equity: Meaningful equity stake — the company strongly values builders owning a real piece of what they create.
• Wellness programs and free daily meals in-office.
• Top-tier hardware and software setup.
• Flexible PTO optimized for deep, focused work.
• Learning budget covering books, courses, conferences, and compute for personal experiments.
• Periodic team offsites.

Skills & Technologies

Rust

Git

Onsite

$160k-270k

Degree Required

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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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