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Forward Deployed Engineer (Founding Customer Engineer)

Clera · San Francisco, CA · 1 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$140k–$185k/yrFull-time

About The Role

We're an early-stage B2B SaaS company building self-improving AI agents that autonomously conduct and personalize product demos for software businesses. Our conversational AI lives on customers' websites, guiding visitors through tailored product experiences — helping companies explain and sell their software without human intervention.

What You'll Do

  • Teach and coach AI agents to sell effectively — defining product tiers, buyer personas, and pricing conversation flows
  • Own customer relationships end-to-end, from onboarding through long-term success, continuously improving demo performance and product adoption
  • Serve as the voice of the customer — analyzing conversation logs and feedback to surface patterns and translate them into actionable product insights
  • Work directly with the CTO to turn customer feedback into shipped product features
  • Build automation workflows and systems (scripting, APIs, low-code/no-code tools) to scale the customer engineering function and eliminate repetitive manual tasks

Requirements

  • 0–3 years of experience in a customer-facing technical role in SaaS (e.g., Solutions Engineer, Customer Engineer, Sales Engineer)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to lead customer onboarding sessions and product demos
  • Hands-on experience building automation workflows to scale customer engineering tasks (scripting, APIs, or low-code/no-code platforms)
  • Experience analyzing customer feedback and conversation data to identify patterns and inform product decisions
  • Able to collaborate closely with engineering leadership and translate customer needs into product requirements
  • Experience configuring or coaching AI agents for sales contexts, including persona definition and pricing conversation design
  • Instinct for process — you spot repetitive work and immediately think about how to automate it

Nice to Have

  • Background at a product demo, sales enablement, or go-to-market SaaS company
  • Experience at a high-growth early-stage startup or in a "zero-to-one" customer success/engineering function

Compensation & Benefits

Salary: $140,000 – $185,000 USD annually
Early employee equity opportunity at a well-backed seed-stage company
Direct collaboration with founders and outsized career growth potential

Location

This is a full-time, on-site role based in San Francisco, CA. Remote work is not available for this position.

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