Senior Agent Engineer

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Senior Agent Engineer in USA

Clera
Full time
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USA
10/11/2026
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Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities

Evaluate advances in reasoning, planning, memory, tool use, and agent collaboration to identify product opportunities.
Translate model behaviors and user needs into reusable skills and dependable workflows.
Build and evolve Python agent systems, including execution loops, orchestration, context management, structured outputs, retries, and error recovery.
Design integrations with email, calendars, messaging platforms, browsers, documents, CRMs, and other business software.
Own full-stack capabilities across services, interfaces, data models, background jobs, observability, and production operations.
Improve latency, cost, reliability, and safety using production traces and user feedback.
Partner with evaluation and quality teams to define expected behavior and implement engineering improvements.
Shape technical direction, build platform abstractions, and contribute to design reviews.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience building and operating production software systems.
Strong Python proficiency and hands-on experience with Django, APIs, React, and TypeScript.
Experience building agent systems involving planning, tool calling, state and context management, structured outputs, retries, and orchestration.
Experience designing external API integrations and reusable platform abstractions.
Strong product judgment, systems design, and debugging skills across prompts, model outputs, application code, databases, and APIs.
Experience improving complex systems using production signals and comfort with ambiguous requirements.
A degree in engineering or a related field with strong technical fundamentals.
Evidence of startup-building experience or sustained career progression within an organization.
Experience with high-volume systems, workflow automation, language models, or production model evaluation is helpful.

Benefits

On-site work in Palo Alto, California, United States.
Visa sponsorship is not available.

Clera

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