Founding Product Engineer

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Founding Product Engineer in USA new

Clera
Full time
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USA
11/06/2026
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San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

Speak with manufacturers to understand workflows and translate customer needs into product improvements.
Build backend systems that ingest and process documents from customer ERPs and inboxes.
Develop AI agents for complex food safety and compliance documents.
Own product features across discovery, problem definition, frontend development, shipping, and iteration.
Make pragmatic technical decisions and address emerging product and engineering needs.

Requirements

At least 4 years of professional experience, including substantial hands-on software engineering and production coding.
Experience transitioning from product management into engineering or serving as a sole or first product engineer with end-to-end product ownership.
Demonstrated success shipping products or major features used by real customers and explaining technical and product tradeoffs.
Strong full-stack skills across backend services, frontend development, and relational database design such as PostgreSQL.
Experience with Kotlin and Spring Boot or another JVM backend, plus React and Next.js, is relevant.
Production experience with AI or LLM products, agents, search, RAG, document processing, or unstructured data extraction is preferred.
Experience with GCP or another major cloud platform and familiarity with food manufacturing, supply chains, or traditional industrial sectors are helpful.

Benefits

Base salary of $180,000 to $250,000 annually plus 0.5% to 1.5% equity.
On-site work in San Francisco, California.
Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $180k - $250k/yr

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