Six Figure Work

Founding Engineer

Clera

Company websitegetclera.com (Clera, opens in new tab)

Base salary $180K  to $250K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA

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  • LocationSan Francisco, CA
  • WorkplaceOn-site
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
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About this job

About the Role

Join the founding engineering team at an early-stage B2B SaaS company building AI tools for industrial ingredient manufacturers. This hands-on role spans product engineering, backend systems, frontend experiences, infrastructure, and AI agents that help customers process complex operational documents.

What You'll Do

  • Build backend systems that ingest and process documents from customer business systems and inboxes.

  • Develop production AI agents that complete complex, multi-page compliance and food safety documents.

  • Own products end to end, from customer discovery and problem definition through architecture, launch, and iteration.

  • Ship quickly, gather feedback from real users, and improve products based on how they work in practice.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 4 years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of hands-on production coding.

  • Previous experience as a founder, co-founder, CTO, VP of Engineering, or engineering leader at an early-stage startup, and interest in returning to an individual contributor role.

  • End-to-end ownership of products or major features used by real customers, including experience taking products from 0 to 1.

  • Strong full-stack skills, including the ability to take a feature from backend service through to the user interface.

  • Experience building backend services that process real-world data and designing relational databases such as Postgres.

  • Production experience with AI, LLMs, agents, search, RAG, or automation; document processing and unstructured data extraction are relevant.

  • Familiarity with Kotlin and Spring Boot or another JVM backend, React and Next.js, cloud platforms such as GCP, and production model integrations is helpful. Experience with other stacks is welcome.

  • Interest in fast-moving product development and solving problems in manufacturing, supply chain, or other established industries.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $180,000 to $250,000 annually, plus 0.5% to 1.5% equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

This is a fully on-site role in San Francisco, California.

Source: Clera on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)

This range next to 6 other live Clera roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Clera roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Founding Engineer (this listing)$180K - $250K
Platform Engineer, Biotech$180K - $240K
Head of Engineering$180K - $220K
Senior Robotics Engineer, Controls$180K - $200K
Founding Applied AI Engineer$180K - $230K
QA Engineer$180K - $200K
Forward Deployed Engineer$180K - $220K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Clera roles · How to read the bar

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Employer-stated posting date
2026-11-06
Where this pay comes from

Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco

Base salary is $180,000 to $250,000 annually, plus 0.5% to 1.5% equity. Visa sponsorship is not

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