Clera
Forward Deployed Engineer (Founding Customer Engineer)
Why it's interesting
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.
The role
Own customer deployments end to end as Clera's founding customer engineer — gather requirements, build and ship integrations, and turn conversational demo-agents into production wins for B2B go-to-market teams. 0–3 yrs in a customer-facing technical role (solutions engineer, customer engineer, or TAM). Verified live on Clera's own Ashby board.
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