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    Founding Engineer

    CleraOn-site - San Francisco, California, United StatesPosted 2026-11-06
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    On-site - San Francisco, California, United States
    Employment
    Full-time
    Workplace
    On site
    Compensation
    $180000–250000 per year
    Department: Engineering

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    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.