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Agent Engineer

Clera · Palo Alto

Agent Engineer is open at Clera in Palo Alto (remote). The posting gives no salary; similar roles in the United States advertise a median of $200K. Posted on Nov 8, 2026, and still on Clera’s careers page when we last checked, on Nov 14, 2026.

About the role

About the Role

Build reliable, production-ready agent capabilities that help users delegate complex work with confidence. This role combines agent systems engineering, platform development, integrations, and full-stack product work.

What You'll Do

  • Evaluate advances in reasoning, planning, memory, tool use, and agent collaboration to identify useful product opportunities.
  • Turn promising model behaviors into reusable skills and workflows that solve user problems.
  • Build and improve Python agent infrastructure, including 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 capabilities end to end across Python and Django services, APIs, React interfaces, data models, background jobs, observability, and operations.
  • Develop reusable platform abstractions and improve execution 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.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 5 years of experience building, deploying, and operating production software systems end to end.
  • Strong Python skills, including maintainable production code and experience debugging asynchronous systems.
  • Hands-on experience building production agent systems, with knowledge of 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 working 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.

Location

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

The employer’s own description, as published on Clera’s careers page.

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Clera has 256 open roles right now, 61 of them remote. Most are in Engineering, Sales & Business Development and Marketing & Community. The median advertised salary across its roles with a published range is $178K. See all its roles

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