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Clera
Full time
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USA
11/09/2026
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Palo Alto, CA

Responsibilities

Evaluate advances in reasoning, planning, memory, tool use, and agent collaboration to identify product opportunities.
Turn model behaviors into reusable skills and workflows that solve user problems.
Build Python agent infrastructure for execution loops, orchestration, context management, structured outputs, retries, and recovery.
Design tools and integrations for email, calendars, messaging, browsers, documents, CRMs, and business software.
Own end-to-end capabilities across Python and Django services, APIs, React interfaces, data models, background jobs, observability, and operations.
Develop reusable platform abstractions and improve latency, cost, reliability, and safety.
Use evaluations, production traces, and user feedback to diagnose issues and improve agent behavior.
Set technical direction for ambiguous problems and contribute to design reviews and engineering quality.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience building, deploying, and operating production software systems.
Strong Python skills, including maintainable production code and debugging asynchronous systems.
Hands-on experience building production agent systems involving planning, tool calling, structured outputs, context and state management, retries, and orchestration.
Full-stack experience with Django, APIs, React, and TypeScript.
Experience building integrations with external APIs and business software platforms.
Ability to turn evolving technical capabilities and loosely defined user needs into practical product features.
Experience designing reusable platform abstractions and analyzing production traces across models, application code, databases, and APIs.
Background with large language models, prompt engineering, or model evaluation in production.
Experience optimizing distributed systems for latency, cost, and reliability is helpful.
Strong computer science and engineering fundamentals, clear communication, and a track record of ownership and career progression or startup experience.

Benefits

On-site in Palo Alto, California, with hybrid flexibility.
Visa sponsorship is not available.

Clera

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