Clera

Founding Engineer

New York
Salary
$156,000 - $182,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
Remote · US only
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 5 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join a small, early-stage team building AI-powered research tools for professional investors, starting with healthcare. As a founding engineer, you will build the infrastructure and products that help AI agents turn diverse data sources into reliable, continuously updated industry models.

What You'll Do

  • Build and ship features across frontend applications, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure.
  • Create data pipelines and internal tools that help analysts add sources and maintain sector coverage.
  • Improve agent-based parsing and extraction systems for greater capability and reliability.
  • Own projects end to end, including data inspection, quality assurance, instrumentation, production releases, and debugging.
  • Develop a company ontology and an earnings research product.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 2 years of experience building, shipping, and operating production systems, with up to approximately 7 years of professional experience.
  • Hands-on experience building and deploying agentic AI systems or LLM-based applications in production, including recent work on AI projects.
  • Full-stack capability across Python backend development, FastAPI or an equivalent framework, data pipelines, and TypeScript and React.
  • Experience with ETL, data modeling, SQL, relational database design and optimization, and PostgreSQL or similar systems.
  • Experience with AWS, real-time data systems, observability, monitoring, and debugging distributed systems.
  • Strong ownership, sound judgment about when to use AI agents versus deterministic systems, and willingness to work across unfamiliar technologies.
  • Financial research, capital markets, investment banking, or broader financial services experience is helpful. Familiarity with modern data tools, edge infrastructure, or AI/ML tooling is also a plus.
  • Must be a U.S. citizen and able to work on-site in New York City. Full-time commitment required.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $156,000 to $182,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in New York City, New York, five days per week.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

ETL · FastAPI · SQL

Rare in Clera's other 183 open postings.

Standard for software engineering roles

Python

Common in software engineering postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 182 open in Engineering. 116 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (92 of 182), TypeScript (91 of 182), Python (76 of 182), React (76 of 182), Machine Learning (42 of 182), PostgreSQL (36 of 182), Supabase (36 of 182)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

Posting history

Reposted 2 times since 27 September 2026: a posting for this role in New York was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

47 other open postings titled Founding Engineer state a salary: median USD 175,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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