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    Clera

    AI

    Forward Deployed Engineer (Founding Customer Engineer)

    San Francisco, United StatesOn-SiteFull-time0–3 yrs experience$140k – $185k / yearPosted 3mo ago
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    Job description

    About the Role

    This is a founding, first-non-founder hire at a seed-stage AI SaaS startup building conversational agents that run automated product demos for B2B go-to-market teams. You'll own every customer relationship and build the playbook for scaling from a small initial customer base to thousands. The role sits at the intersection of technical implementation, customer success, and product feedback — working directly with the CTO to shape what gets built.

    What You'll Do

    • Own end-to-end customer relationships from onboarding through ongoing success, including improving demo performance and driving adoption

    • Teach and coach AI agents on product positioning, buyer personas, pricing conversations, and sales workflows

    • Serve as the voice of the customer — analyze conversation logs and feedback to identify patterns and surface insights for the product team

    • Translate customer feedback into actionable product feature requests in close collaboration with engineering and the CTO

    • Build automation workflows and systems (scripting, APIs, low-code/no-code tools) to help the customer engineering function scale efficiently

    • Define and document the customer engineering playbook from scratch

    What We're Looking For

    Required

    • 0–3 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role in SaaS (e.g., solutions engineer, customer engineer, technical account manager)

    • Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable leading product demos and customer onboarding sessions

    • Hands-on experience building automation workflows to scale customer-facing tasks (scripting, APIs, or low-code/no-code tools)

    • Experience analyzing customer feedback and conversation logs to identify patterns and inform product decisions

    • Ability to work cross-functionally and translate customer needs into concrete product improvements

    • Experience coaching or configuring AI agents for sales contexts — defining tiers, personas, and pricing conversations is a plus

    Requirements & Eligibility

    • Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship

    • Must be able to work on-site in San Francisco, CA

    Compensation & Benefits

    • Base salary: $140,000 – $185,000 USD annually

    • Early employee equity opportunity at a funded, early-stage AI startup

    Location

    On-site in San Francisco, CA. Remote and hybrid arrangements are not available for this role.

    Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.

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    About the company

    Clera

    Clera is a fast-growing AI start-up that is rethinking the way top talents find their next dream jobs. By automating and optimizing processes within the $600B global headhunting industry.

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