Founding Engineering Lead
At Clera · New York; New York, United States
Salary: $200,000 to $400,000 a year
- Engineering
- Full-time
- Lead
Early applicant Posted 17 hours ago. Radar emails jobs like this within hours of us finding them. The free weekly email can take up to a week.
See how well you match Match me reads your CV and picks the jobs that suit you best.
Get jobs like this within hours Radar emails you new jobs open to you within hours of us finding them, before most people see them.
Where you can work from
Open to the United States
“New York”
From the location.
“New York, New York, United States”
From the job board field.
Report a mistake
- Posted
- 17 hours ago
- First seen by us
- 10 November 2026
- Last checked
- 9 hours ago
Job description
From Clera’s job post, as they wrote it.
About the Role
Lead hands-on engineering and applied machine learning at an early-stage B2B SaaS company. You will shape the platform architecture and technical roadmap with the founders while leading a small engineering pod.
What You'll Do
* Build and lead a pod of engineers, supporting their growth, performance, and hiring while shipping critical work yourself.
* Own platform architecture and make build-versus-buy and infrastructure decisions.
Read the full description
* Set engineering standards, code review criteria, release practices, definitions of done, and on-call policies.
* Lead technical design and initial implementation of new initiatives.
* Assess applied machine learning research and determine what is suitable for production systems.
* Partner with the CTO on product direction, model strategy, and machine learning approaches.
What We're Looking For
* Typically 5 to 8 years of engineering experience, with exceptional candidates considered from 4 to 5 years.
* Experience in an AI-native company, with technical leadership or ownership that helped build and support an engineering team.
* Hands-on experience training and deploying machine learning models in commercial production products, beyond integrating language model APIs.
* End-to-end ownership of technical architecture, infrastructure decisions, and engineering standards.
* Recent experience personally shipping production software, plus a record of stable engineering tenure.
* Strong applied machine learning judgment, including classical methods and current approaches to transformers and agent applications.
* Comfort with ambiguity, inherited code, hands-on development, and AI-assisted engineering workflows.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $200,000 to $400,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.
Location
On-site in New York, New York.
Founding Engineering LeadClera
Apply on Clera (opens in a new tab)Get jobs like this by email
Once a week, we email the new remote jobs open where you live, each with the line that proves it. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe.
