Clera
Clera

Voice AI Engineer

TLDR

Own end-to-end real-time voice infrastructure—from telephony and ASR/TTS pipelines to live-call agent-skills—for AI-native insurance workflows.

About the Role

We're building the AI-native distribution layer for the insurance industry — a massive, largely untouched market still running on manual workflows and legacy software. Voice is core to our product, not an afterthought: we operate a real-time voice platform with growing call volume and millions of production traces. As a Voice AI Engineer, you'll own critical pieces of that infrastructure end-to-end, from telephony and ASR/TTS pipelines to the agent-skills layer that powers live calls.

We're a fast-moving, distributed team with an AI-native engineering culture. We ship things that work for real customers — not demos.

What You'll Do

  • Build and improve our real-time voice platform: call handling, ASR/TTS pipelines, and latency-sensitive audio processing.

  • Work on telephony infrastructure (Twilio/SIP) and the agent/skills layer powering live calls.

  • Drive reliability and latency improvements for a system handling growing call volume at scale.

  • Instrument and monitor voice quality, latency budgets, and failure modes in production.

  • Ship daily using AI coding tools (Claude Code / Codex) as a core part of how you work — we're an AI-native engineering org.

What We're Looking For

Must-Haves

  • Real-time voice / telephony experience: hands-on with Twilio, SIP, ASR/TTS, or latency-sensitive audio systems.

  • Strong TypeScript / Node.js for production backend systems.

  • High ownership mentality — you take a feature from design to production and support it after launch.

  • Comfortable with distributed/event-driven systems, on-call rotations, incident response, and latency budgets.

  • Proficiency instrumenting and monitoring voice quality and failure modes in production.

  • Eligible to work in LATAM, Ukraine, or Portugal (fully remote); visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience building agentic systems in production (tools/skills frameworks, MCP, evals, guardrails).

  • Applied LLM work: fine-tuning, distillation, eval-driven development.

  • Background in insurance, fintech, or another regulated/compliance-heavy vertical.

  • Daily use of AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Codex, or similar).

Tech Stack

  • Backend: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS (monorepo)

  • Orchestration: Temporal (Temporal Cloud)

  • Data: PostgreSQL on AWS RDS (multi-tenant), Terraform IaC

  • AI: Anthropic + OpenAI models

  • Platform: AWS, Clerk (auth), Datadog (observability)

  • Tooling: Linear, GitHub, Claude Code + Codex

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary up to $72,000 USD annually (floor dependent on experience and location)

  • Fully remote role with a distributed, international team

  • High-autonomy, high-ownership engineering culture

  • Work closely with customers and directly influence product direction

Location

This is a fully remote position. We are currently hiring candidates based in LATAM, Ukraine, or Portugal. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Benefits

Customer collaboration and product influence

Work closely with customers and directly influence product direction

Remote-Friendly

Fully remote role with a distributed, international team

Clera harnesses the power of artificial intelligence to match high-growth startups with exceptional talent, streamlining the entire headhunting process. This innovative approach simplifies the job search for candidates while providing startups with access to a curated pool of skilled professionals who align with their needs.

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Founded 2024
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