Founding Engineer Intern
Clera
About this role
Role Description: As we are quickly growing and see a massive tech challenge in automating the work of the $600B global headhunting industry, we are looking for a cracked founding engineer intern. You will work directly with our CTO & Co-Founder Daniel and ship your own features to production every day. You will have a strong impact on building our fully agentic system to automate the headhunting process end-to-end. Set-up: Hacker-Houses in LatAm - Live & build with a small founding team—think YC sprint, but sunny & adventures - Zero commute, 10× feedback loops & team bonding - Our international team flew in from Germany, Canada, Sweden - Working on the largest talent market - the US - on the same time zone - It’s very intense but also extremely productive & fun to live and work from the same AirBnb as a team
Co-Founders: - Sebastian (CEO): Serial marketplace founder; scaled learning platform naklar.io to 10k users and built AI-agent products for European manufacturers. - Daniel (CTO): Founding several VC-funded start-ups, Head of Engineering leading a 15 people team. - Alexander (COO): Scaled SaaS to 10M ARR as Chief of Staff, worked across recruiting (800 interviews, 30 hires) and GTM. - Also see getclera.com/about
Who are we looking for? We’re looking for a Founding Engineer Intern to help us build Clera into the default way people find jobs. How we build at Clera: 🚀 Extreme Ownership – Build and own like a founder, end-to-end. ⚡️ Ship Relentlessly – Launch daily, make real impact every week. 👥 High-output, low-ego. Challenge ideas, support each other. 🧑💻 User-Obsessed – Talent first, always. Talk to users, measure by hiring speed. 🔥 Velocity & Grit – Move at founder pace, 7 days a week. All-in, no passengers. If these resonate, we would love to talk. Please apply through the "Apply Now" button.
Other facts
About Clera
Clera is a fast-growing AI startup changing how top talent and high-growth companies find each other. We've raised a large pre-seed round to tackle recruiting's core problem: the best candidates never apply. We work with leading teams like Luminai, Windsurf, and Mintlify, and we believe recruiting should be talent-first. That means making it easy to get discovered, be coached through the process, and actually land the role you deserve.
Clera is a fast-growing AI start-up that is changing how top talents find jobs with AI start-ups. We are working with some of the leading companies like Luminai, Windsurf and mintlify.
We are convinced that the recruiting process needs to be talent-first to make it easy to get in touch with those companies, be coached in the journey and actually get hired.
Join the team
Cracked team of operators and ex-founders who moved together to a hackerhouse to go all-in and provide some real impact. You'll work directly with the founders:
• Sebastian (CEO) — Built two consumer marketplaces to 15K users, first at 17. Saw firsthand the value human recruiters provide.
• Daniel (CTO) — Head of Engineering at HR scale-up Lofino (acquired), led 15 engineers. Serial builder — first startup at 18, then a VC-backed marketplace.
• Alexander (COO) — Scaled a Series A messenger startup to €10M ARR as Chief of Staff. Led recruiting (80 FTEs) and growth.
Employee benefits
Interview process
- First Call with the Founder
- Second Call with our CTO
- Take Home Challenge
- Interview