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Founding Engineer

CleraSan Francisco

Role type
Experienced
Track
Management
Experience
2+ yrs
Pay
$150k–$250k
Posted
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“Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available.”

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About the Role

Join an early-stage AI company as its first engineering hire, working closely with the founder to turn a working AI-powered service business product into scalable infrastructure. You will shape the architecture and technical foundations for AI agents supporting real-world business operations, with the opportunity to grow into a CTO role as the company develops.

What You'll Do

  • Rebuild and scale the existing product into infrastructure designed to support substantial user growth.

  • Design and operate the agent runtime, including orchestration, memory, verification, and reliability systems.

  • Build across backend, infrastructure, frontend, and AI agents, taking projects from design through production.

  • Set technical architecture, engineering standards, and development practices as the first engineer.

  • Ship product improvements regularly to customers running real businesses.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 2 years of experience shipping production software, or an equivalent record as a founder, solo builder, or exceptional early-career engineer.

  • Full-stack range across backend, infrastructure, and user-facing product development, with the ability to make technical decisions independently.

  • Hands-on experience building and operating LLM or AI agent systems used by real customers, not just prototypes or demos.

  • Experience taking a working product or prototype to reliable production infrastructure, including architecture, data models, runtime, or orchestration.

  • Strong generalist engineering skills and the ability to explain the technical challenges behind systems you have built.

  • Experience with agent orchestration, memory, evaluations, verification, or multi-agent workflows is valuable. Background in service businesses such as recruiting or agencies is also useful.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $150,000 to $250,000 annually, plus meaningful founding equity. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California. The team works together in person.

Source: jobs.ashbyhq.com · Engineering · Listing e1c974c3-b864-49ef-baac-79f5c71ce9b3

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