Clera
Forward Deployed Engineer (Founding Customer Engineer)
$100K–$200K + equity (Employer provided)
The founding-FDE pattern keeps compressing. Clera's first non-founder hire is a deployment engineer — employee #1 at a seed-stage shop building conversational agents that run automated B2B product demos, brought on before there's a product team to hand off to. $100K–$200K + founding equity, open to 0–3 yrs. Seed companies now hire the last-mile person before the platform is even finished.
San Francisco, CA founding FDEconversational agentsseed stage