Cleric · 5 months ago
Staff Software Engineer, AI
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
6+ years expCleric is focused on building products that free engineers from operational toil, starting with an AI-powered SRE agent. The Staff Software Engineer, AI will drive the development of this agent, working on its reasoning, learning, and technical architecture, while maintaining high engineering standards and enhancing customer experience.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Information TechnologySoftware
Responsibilities
Build autonomous agents capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks
Design and implement agent evaluation frameworks to measure performance and reliability
Develop self-improving systems that can adapt based on feedback and results
Expand agent observability to resolve day-to-day issues with tool-calling and agent orchestration
Qualification
Required
6+ years of production software engineering experience with exposure to ML/data science
You love building tools for fellow engineers. You consider it a craft
You have strong software engineering fundamentals and have opinions on how to build robust, scalable, and secure software
You've operated high-scale distributed infrastructure. You've seen it done right, and you've seen it gone wrong. Kubernetes, Kafka, Spark, microservices, and all the usual suspects
You've built complex systems at scale. We use Python, but value experience with systems languages (Rust, C++, Go) or JVM languages (Kotlin, Scala)
You are obsessed with generative AI and have a background in building ML/AI systems
You are a methodical thinker and try to understand the big picture
You challenge assumptions and propose pragmatic solutions
Preferred
Prior experience building autonomous agents
Familiarity with LLM tool-calling, function-calling, and agentic frameworks
Previous startup experience
Company
Cleric
Cleric is an AI teammate that frees software engineers up from on-call support.
2-10 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$9.8MKey Investors
Vertex Ventures USZetta Venture Partners
2025-12-09Seed· $5.5M
2024-03-21Seed· $4.3M
Leadership Team
Shahram Anver
Co Founder, CEO
Willem Pienaar
Co-Founder and CTO
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