Founding Engineer, Agent Systems

Clera
Clera

Full-time

USD 150k-220k / year + Equity

Posted on Sep 27, 2026

About the Role

You'll build and own the core agent infrastructure powering Doctours' AI systems—the orchestration layer, tool integrations, retrieval, and evals that run our patient-facing and internal agents. This is a systems and infrastructure role focused on designing agentic workflows that automate clinic-side and internal operations end-to-end, distinct from live conversation AI work. You'll ship reliable agent systems and continuously improve them through monitoring and evaluation.

What You'll Do

  • Design and implement the orchestration layer for multi-step agentic workflows across clinic operations and internal processes.
  • Integrate external tools and APIs into agent systems, ensuring reliable tool calling and error handling.
  • Build retrieval and evaluation infrastructure to measure and improve agent reliability and accuracy.
  • Automate recurring manual work by identifying opportunities and shipping systems to eliminate them.
  • Monitor agent performance in production and iterate on system design based on real-world behavior.

What We're Looking For

  • Strong math and CS fundamentals, demonstrated through elite academic performance, competition experience, or fast self-directed learning.
  • Personal projects, research, or open-source work building agent or LLM systems—orchestration, tool integrations, RAG, or evals all count as strong evidence.
  • An automation instinct: you spot recurring manual work and naturally think in systems.
  • No professional experience required; recent graduates and self-taught builders are welcome.

Compensation & Benefits

$150,000–$220,000 base salary + meaningful founding-team equity.

The Stack

The stack is TypeScript hosted on Vercel, agents built on Mastra, with roughly 10,000 active conversations at any given time.

About Doctours

Doctours is a small team of five to eight people, founded by Girum Tihtina (ex-Meta payments engineering), Maurice Landers III (CTO, Harvey Mudd CS, design-engineer), and Tillman Degens. Tens of thousands of patients have already used Doctours to get care they could otherwise not afford.

Location

Full-time, in-person at our San Francisco headquarters, five days per week.