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Clera

Founding Product Engineer

Clera · San Francisco

Location
San Francisco
Posted
Yesterday
Type
Fulltime / On site
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What the job really is

About the Role

This is a founding-level engineering role at an early-stage AI consumer startup building an ambient intelligence product that spans phone, watch, and desktop. You'll own the full product surface — from UX and UI through to the underlying AI agent and speech recognition pipeline — working directly alongside the Head of Product to ship fast and iterate on real user feedback.

What You'll Do

  • Own features end-to-end across mobile, wearable, desktop, and the agent/ASR pipeline beneath them.

  • Translate lightweight briefs and Slack threads into shipped product with minimal specification.

  • Make independent trade-offs across UX, UI, backend, and AI/ML based on what each feature actually needs.

  • Drive improvements to ASR latency and accuracy, wearable reliability, cross-platform detection, and agent responsiveness.

  • Take features from design through ship through iteration, closing the loop on user feedback without waiting for direction.

  • Partner closely with Product and Design to prioritize and execute the roadmap.

What We're Looking For

  • 2+ years of full-time experience shipping consumer features end-to-end across mobile, desktop, wearable, or backend platforms.

  • Genuine capability across at least two of: mobile, desktop, wearable, and backend — with shipped work to show for it.

  • Founding or early-stage startup engineering experience (pre-Series B or equivalent scale).

  • Full-stack product development ability — comfortable making UX, UI, backend, and AI/ML trade-offs independently.

  • Experience building real-time or streaming systems requiring low-latency or continuous data pipelines.

  • Strong product sense: knows what's worth building and can execute without detailed specs.

  • Nice to have: iOS/watchOS or wearable development; speech, audio, or ASR ML pipeline experience; AI-native or LLM-powered consumer app work; agent/agentic workflow implementation; hardware-adjacent startup background.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary: $200,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid — San Francisco, CA, United States.

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