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 the agentic recruiting marketplace that activates the 75% of candidates who never apply. We're a fast-growing AI startup rethinking how top talent and companies find each other—solving the market's core problem of irrelevant matches through a talent-first approach. Rather than waiting for applications, our AI agents proactively connect passive candidates with leading companies like Luminai, Windsurf, and Mintlify, coaching them through the journey to actually get hired. We raised a large pre-seed round to tackle this challenge at scale.
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