Founding Engineer: Real-Time Consumer Platform
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Founding Engineer: Real-Time Consumer Platform at clera: San Francisco, United States; On-site; Lead; IT; Full Stack Engineer. This listing is part of JobGrid's Software engineer jobs from public company career pages. JobGrid adds normalized role facts, source context, and a path to the employer application page so candidates can compare the listing before applying.
- Location and workplace: San Francisco, United States, On-site
- Role classification: IT, Full Stack Engineer, Lead
- Source freshness: checked by JobGrid on 2026-06-09.
- Application path: candidates continue to the employer application page with non-personal referral tags.
About the Role
This is a unique 1-of-1 founding engineer position at an early-stage AI startup building a real-time platform focused on digital human connection. You'll work directly alongside the founder, shaping both the product and engineering culture as the company scales quickly. You'll help establish the technical foundation for a consumer product centered on meaningful, scalable interactions.
What You'll Do
Build across the full application stack—work on all aspects with the founder, design, and other engineers
Create memory, retrieval, proactivity, and related systems to improve AI presence and responsiveness
Integrate real-time video and audio models, both internal and external, to enable dynamic interactions
Set the engineering bar and help recruit world-class talent
Dogfood the product extensively to ensure quality and real user value
What We're Looking For
High energy, extremely intelligent and bright
Proven entrepreneurial spirit in startups or other fast-moving environments
Strong computer science fundamentals
Experience completing technically complex side projects
1+ years of experience in software engineering
Bonus: experience with real-time media, vision/video models, memory systems, or audio-focused projects