Founding Member of Technical Staff, AI

San Franciscofull timeOn Sitesenior$150k–$225kH1B: no

Clera Founding Member of Technical Staff at Clera building AI systems to automate insurance workflows and streamline operations. Responsible for developing browser-use agents, voice AI, LLM pipelines, and carrier integrations.

Responsibilities

Join an early-stage commercial insurance technology company as its first engineer. You will work directly with the founder to establish the engineering foundation and build AI systems that streamline insurance workflows for small and medium businesses.
Build browser-use agents to automate insurance workflows.
Develop voice AI for interactions with clients and insurance carriers.
Create long-horizon LLM pipelines and robust evaluation frameworks.
Build carrier integrations and AI-powered quoting and submission workflows.
Develop AI agents for policy analysis and document processing.
Own systems end to end and help shape the technical direction from the ground up.

Qualification

Experience with Python or TypeScriptBackground in insurtechFamiliarity with LangGraph

Required

Between 0 and 5 years of software engineering experience, with strong engineering fundamentals in system design, clean code, and debugging.
Hands-on experience building production LLM, AI agent, or voice AI systems, including LLM evaluation frameworks.
Experience with Python or TypeScript; familiarity with LangGraph, browser-use agents, or autonomous agent frameworks is relevant.
Ability to build and own systems from 0 to 1 in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
Experience as an early-stage founding engineer or at an established technology company.