Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Clera

Job Overview

Location

Austin

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• A fast-growing, Y Combinator–backed startup is building AI agents for the short-haul trucking and industrial logistics space — a massive market that still largely runs on spreadsheets and manual planning.
• With strong month-over-month revenue growth and a rapidly expanding US customer base, the team is hiring its first technical hire on the ground in the US: a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer who will own the full technical success of US customers from day one.
• This is a high-impact, front-line role at the intersection of engineering, customer success, and product.
• You'll be the technical face of the company to US customers — embedded in their operations, solving real problems, and feeding critical insights back to the core product team.
• Own end-to-end technical deployments for US customers, from onboarding through to long-term success.
• Integrate the AI scheduling platform with customers' existing job management systems, GPS tools, and operational workflows.
• Act as the primary technical point of contact for US customers, diagnosing and resolving issues quickly.
• Work closely with the product and engineering teams to translate customer feedback and field learnings into product improvements.
• Build repeatable deployment playbooks, integration patterns, and technical documentation to scale the US go-to-market motion.
• Identify and surface expansion opportunities within existing accounts.
• Travel to customer sites as needed to support hands-on deployments and build strong relationships with operations and planning teams.

🎯 Requirements

• 3–10+ years of experience in a forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, technical customer success, or similar customer-facing technical role.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals — comfortable reading, writing, and debugging code across a modern stack.
• Experience integrating SaaS products with third-party systems (APIs, webhooks, data pipelines, etc.).
• Excellent communication skills — able to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical operations teams.
• Self-starter mentality with the ability to operate independently in an early-stage, fast-moving environment.
• Based in or willing to relocate to Austin, TX.

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary: $110,000 – $135,000 USD annually.
• Founding-team equity participation.
• High-ownership role with direct influence on product, culture, and US market strategy.

Skills & Technologies

Onsite

$110k-135k

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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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