Founding Engineer - Agentic

Home > Javascript/Typescript programming jobs

Founding Engineer - Agentic in USA

Clera
Full time
Email

USA
09/14/2026
Report

San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Own the full agent layer, including context engineering, self-learning systems, evals, the agent harness, and the meta-harness.
Build a compounding knowledge base of undocumented systems to improve future integrations.
Design and ship self-healing workflows that detect, diagnose, and recover from production failures.
Build and maintain reusable harnesses for creating, evaluating, and evolving agents.
Set engineering patterns for future agents across the platform.
Help hire and grow the agentic engineering team.
Work alongside the founding team and ship production systems through rapid experimentation.

Requirements

2 to 9 years of professional software engineering experience with a hands-on individual contributor focus.
Completed or in-progress engineering, computer science, or quantitative degree from a strong technical university.
Prior experience as a founder or early engineer at an early-stage, venture-backed startup.
Proven experience building agentic software within the past year.
Experience building context or self-learning systems that improve agent performance through accumulated knowledge.
Experience building autonomous failure detection, diagnosis, or self-healing production workflows.
Deep understanding of agent tracing, evals, and eval-driven iteration.
Experience building reusable agent harnesses or meta-harnesses.
Strong implementation focus with experience shipping working production systems rather than research prototypes.
Proficiency with TypeScript and PostgreSQL; familiarity with LLMs and agent frameworks.

Benefits

Annual salary range of $150,000 to $300,000 USD.
Visa sponsorship is available where an O-1 visa is a realistic path.
On-site five days a week in San Francisco, California.
Candidates currently elsewhere in the US may relocate with a concrete, dated relocation plan.

Salary: $150k - $300k/yr

Clera

Clera harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to match high-growth startups with exceptional talent, streamlining the entire headhunting process. This innovative approach simplifies the job search for candidates while providing startups with access to a curated pool of skilled professional...

Similar positions

Founding Engineer

Clera
Full time

USA
10/04/2026
Salary: $150k - $200k/yr

San Francisco, CA

Principal Software Engineer

eDynamic Learning
Full time

Canada
10/04/2026
Salary: C$180k-C$220k

Remote

Software Engineer

Clera
Full time

USA
10/04/2026

San Francisco, CA

Founding Product Engineer

Clera
Full time

Others
10/04/2026

Munich, Germany

Senior Software Engineer

Grafana Labs
Full time

USA
10/04/2026
Salary: $154k-$185k

Remote