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Software Engineer, AI & Data Systems

$200k - $280k

Clera

Job Description

Job Description

About the Role

You will join a fast growing data infrastructure team to build core platform capabilities and customer facing products. This role involves ownership from architecture to production, with a focus on AI driven data systems and scalable backend, data, and frontend work in collaboration with founders and customers.

What You'll Do
  • Build and ship customer facing products and core platform capabilities across backend, data, infrastructure, and front end surfaces.

  • Design and operate high volume data pipelines and services with strong reliability and observability.

  • Develop AI agents, agent harnesses, and developer tools and operate them at large scale.

  • Make architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and iterate as assumptions evolve.

  • Collaborate directly with founders and customers to translate vague requests into concrete software.

What We're Looking For
  • 1-6 years of professional software engineering experience in relevant domains.

  • Strong backend coding skills with APIs, data models, and distributed systems experience.

  • Experience building and operating high volume data pipelines and working in a talent dense early stage startup environment.

  • Strong CS fundamentals and a degree from a top program or equivalent.

  • Experience with AI native development including LLMs, agent frameworks, and AI agents or identity/matching systems is a plus.

  • Proficiency with Python, distributed systems, data pipelines, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary : $200,000 - $280,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship: not offered. The posting does not specify additional equity or benefits.

Location

Primary location: San Francisco, California, United States. This role is on site with no remote option indicated.

Vacancy posted 2 days ago
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