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Founding Forward Deployed AI Engineer with fast-growth start-up

Clera
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/21/2025
About The Company

This is a seed-stage Generative AI startup focused on revolutionizing enterprise automation. Their mission is to alleviate the burden of mundane, repetitive tasks within businesses, which currently incurs costs exceeding $300 billion annually. Through their flagship product, they offer a solution that eliminates the necessity for extensive manual labor.

At the core of their offering are AI-powered browser automations (RPA) and document processing tools tailored to enhance efficiency, particularly within insurance and banking back-office operations. Already, their technology has demonstrated its capacity to automate millions of dollars' worth of work, marking just the beginning of their journey.

They are seeking individuals to join their founding team who embody drive, possess an entrepreneurial mindset, and share their enthusiasm for shaping the future of enterprise operations.

Why Join Them

  • Real traction at break-neck speed: They have grown to seven figures in revenue in less than 12 months
  • Extreme ownership: Every single member of the engineering team maintains customer relationships. This allows them to ship quickly and build the best product on the market
  • Top-of-market compensation: Competitive compensation packages, including both cash and equity
  • Exceptional team: Team members have backgrounds from top firms such as Doordash, Uber, Apple, Columbia, Glean, Scale AI, Google, Microsoft, Stanford, IIT, Tower Research, McKinsey
  • Tremendous growth opportunity with lightning-fast executors and great mentors:
    • Limitless potential for growth and ownership within the company
    • Opportunity to work alongside some of the most relentless executors in a high-functioning environment
    • Gain mentorship from seasoned founders, leaders, and investors from top companies such as Glean, Facebook, Uber, Automation Anywhere, Replit, Netflix, Databricks, Jasper, and others

The Founding Forward Deployed Engineer Role

As a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, you will own and lead the implementation of AI workflows using their Generative AI platform with customers to create millions in value. You will work closely with the founders, enterprise customers, and a world-class technical team to revolutionize the way enterprises operate.

They are looking for individuals who have been customer-facing, worked across the stack on incredible products, and are excited about building the future of the modern enterprise and GenAI products.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. They use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Responsibilities:

  • Own end-to-end execution of high-stakes projects: A day might span discussing architecture with fellow engineers, wrangling massive-scale data, coding a custom web app, and speaking with customer executives
  • Work on tuning their AI platform to customer requirements: Work with large language models of different kinds to optimize effectiveness based on customer needs
  • Realize breakthroughs to enable novel AI-first workflows: Solve technical problems with data structures, storage systems, cloud infrastructure, front-end frameworks, and other technical tools


Requirements


About You:

  • Strong technical experience: 1-2 years of prior full-time industry experience in software development / solutions engineering, preferably with a focus on AI. Proficiency in one or more of Python, Typescript, Node, React, Next.js, or similar languages
  • Strong customer-facing experience: 2 years of professional experience in a role that involved building alongside customers (e.g., previous founding engineer roles, founder, forward deployed / solutions role at another top-tier company like Palantir, Scale AI)
  • Product mindset: Ability to put yourself in the shoes of a user and critically think through UX to ensure releases are well-rounded
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment: Comfortable working in a dynamic environment with evolving objectives and iteration with users
  • Excited to wear multiple hats: Willingness to iterate and work with customers, do product and release management, all while shipping features fast
  • LLM experience is a big plus: Prior experience leveraging LLM APIs
  • Grit: Experience working at early-stage startups is a plus


Bonus Qualifications:

  • Experience with AI platforms and technologies, including generative models and LLMs
  • Previous experience working in an early-stage startup or dynamic environment

If you are a motivated individual with a passion for AI and a desire to drive innovation in the enterprise industry, they want to hear from you! Join them on their mission to revolutionize business automation. Apply now to be part of an extraordinary team!

Salary : $300

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