Clera

Founding Product Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$180,000 - $250,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 6 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage SaaS team building AI tools for industrial ingredient manufacturers. You will work closely with the founding team, owning products end to end, from customer discovery to shipped software across backend systems, AI agents, frontend, and infrastructure.

What You'll Do

  • Speak with manufacturers to understand their workflows and translate customer needs into product improvements.
  • Build backend systems that ingest and process documents from customer ERPs and inboxes.
  • Develop AI agents that help complete complex food safety and compliance documents.
  • Own features across the full stack, from defining problems and building user interfaces to shipping and iterating based on feedback.
  • Move quickly, make pragmatic technical decisions, and take on emerging product and engineering needs.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 4 years of professional experience, including substantial hands-on software engineering and production coding.
  • Experience as a product manager who transitioned into engineering, or as a sole or first product engineer with end-to-end ownership of product discovery, development, launch, and iteration.
  • A record of shipping products or major features used by real customers, with the ability to explain technical and product tradeoffs.
  • Strong full-stack skills, including backend services, frontend development, and relational database design such as PostgreSQL.
  • Experience with Kotlin and Spring Boot or another JVM backend, plus React and Next.js, is relevant.
  • Production experience with AI or LLM products, agents, search, RAG, document processing, or unstructured data extraction is a plus.
  • Experience with GCP or another major cloud platform is helpful. Familiarity with food manufacturing, supply chains, or other traditional industrial sectors is also a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $180,000 to $250,000 annually, plus 0.5% to 1.5% equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

GCP · Kotlin · Next.js · RAG · Spring

Rare in Clera's other 182 open postings.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 357 open in Engineering. 225 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 (181 of 357), TypeScript (179 of 357), React (155 of 357), Python (150 of 357), Machine Learning (75 of 357), Supabase (73 of 357), PostgreSQL (69 of 357)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted 4 times since 9 September 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

Salary context

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

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