Clera

Forward Deployed Engineer (Founding Customer Engineer)

We captured this posting once, on 2026-08-05, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer: Clera
Location: San Francisco, CA
Seniority: Entry level
Experience asked for: Not stated
Pay band: $140K – $185K

When we saw it

Posted 2026-08-01 — the date the employer published it
Archived 2026-08-05 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

ai agent configurationrelationship managementproduct demoscustomer onboardingcustomer feedback analysisrequirements analysisscriptingAPIslow-code tools

From the posting

About The Role This is a rare opportunity to be the first non-founder hire at a seed-stage B2B SaaS startup in the conversational AI and sales automation space. As a Founding Customer Engineer, you will own every customer relationship and build the playbook that takes the company from its first handful of customers to thousands. You'll work side-by-side with the founding team, directly influencing product direction and shaping the customer engineering function from the ground up. The ideal candidate is equally comfortable on a customer call as they are writing a script or configuring an automation workflow — someone who instinctively looks for ways to eliminate repetitive work and has a genuine interest in how AI agents can transform the B2B sales process. …

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