Applied AI Engineer (Matching & Search)

Clera • San Francisco, CA

15h • Onsite

About The Position

Clera is a fast-growing AI start-up reimagining how top talent finds their dream jobs. We’re already working with leading, VC-backed startups such as Mintlify, Luminai, and Windsurf - many in AI, all VC-backed. We believe recruitment needs to be talent-first to make it easy to get in touch with those companies, be coached in the journey and actually get hired. We just raised our big pre-seed and are not growing as quickly as possible. Thousands of talents engage with Clera every week. We’ve connected many of them with companies where they’ve landed exciting new roles. With the traditional $600B headhunting industry ripe for AI-driven disruption, we are aiming to build a massive company, providing better outcomes for talents and companies. We’re at a pivotal moment—right before liftoff. Early enough that you’ll get meaningful ownership. Far enough that we’ve got a product, paying customers, and a team of A-players. Automating the work of headhunters is a massive tech challenge - and opportunity. We are looking for an exceptional founding engineer. You will work directly with our CTO & Co-Founder Daniel and ship your own features to production every day. You will have a strong impact on building our fully agentic system to automate the headhunting process end-to-end.

Requirements

• Very strong software engineering background.
• Experience in TypeScript and React.
• Strong practical experience working with AI.
• Experience coding with AI (ideally in Cursor).
• Startup mindset - high agency, resourceful, and obsessed with creating value.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with LLM APIs.

Responsibilities

• Ship features to production every day.
• Build our fully agentic system to automate the headhunting process end-to-end.
• Take full ownership of projects, from concept to deployment.
• Write code fast and scrap it even faster, but know when to transition to building for scale and quality.
• Enjoy talking to customers and iterating based on feedback.
• Work hard to create something new with a lot of impact, changing how millions of talents find their jobs in the future.

Benefits

• Visa sponsorship to move to the US.
• Meaningful ownership.
• Support with visa processes.
• Experienced founders and a team of A Players.
• True ownership, no micromanagement, shipping to production every day.
• Work on some of the most technically challenging projects as we scale our marketplace.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed