Staff AI Frontend Engineer — Klarity

Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite, 5 days/week)

Compensation: $250,000 – $315,000 base + competitive equity

Visa Sponsorship: None available

Experience Level: 6+ years

Employment Type: Full-Time

Headcount: 2 open seats

About Klarity

Klarity is building enterprise AI infrastructure focused on operational transformation. Their thesis: enterprise AI fails because companies cannot capture real human decision-making logic and operational context. Klarity's platform passively observes enterprise workflows (with consent), builds a living context graph of organizational behavior, and uses AI companion agents to continuously improve processes.

Company traction:

• $91M raised, post-Series B • 7x growth last fiscal year • 8-figure revenue • Team of 9 across engineering, product, and design • Enterprise customers include Google, OpenAI, Stripe, DoorDash, JLL, Moody's, Monzo Bank, and McKesson • ServiceNow mapped 900+ processes in 9 days using the platform • DoorDash captured 3,800+ finance workflows in 14 weeks

About The Role

This is a senior individual contributor frontend engineering role at the intersection of AI-native product design and advanced frontend architecture. This is not a traditional frontend role. The expectation is ownership of highly complex real-time AI product experiences while shipping at extreme velocity using modern AI-assisted engineering workflows.

Core ownership includes:

• Architecting scalable frontend systems and reusable component libraries • State management architecture and API integration strategy • Performance optimization and bundle efficiency • End-to-end product feature ownership and production-quality UX delivery • Real-time WebRTC companion agent interfaces • Generative dashboards for enterprise context visualization • Agentic chat experiences that directly operate the application • AI-assisted SDLC process design • Rapid prototype-to-production execution

Requirements

• 6+ years of production software engineering experience • Senior to Staff frontend engineering background • Deep React and Next.js mastery • Advanced TypeScript and Tailwind expertise • Strong frontend architecture instincts and performance optimization experience • AI-native development workflow experience — must be fluent with tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, v0.dev, Lovable, or comparable AI engineering tools • Ships multiple features per day with AI tooling • Strong product intuition with high ownership / founder mentality • Comfortable with customer conversations and sales interactions • 5 days onsite in downtown San Francisco

Nice to Have

• Prior founder or founding engineer experience • WebRTC / real-time streaming experience • Video pipeline or voice AI product experience • Generative UI or generative dashboard systems experience • Python backend familiarity • Strong GitHub / shipped product portfolio

Target Backgrounds

Strong signals include founders, founding engineers, high-ownership startup builders, real-time frontend systems builders, WebRTC product engineers, and generative UI builders.

This Role Is NOT For

• Big company-only pedigrees without ownership signal • Candidates seeking mentorship-heavy environments • Profiles with weak AI-native workflow sophistication • Those with superficial understanding of recent frontend tooling evolution

Benefits

• Competitive equity • 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision • Paid parental leave • $500 annual learning fund • $100 monthly wellness fund • 401(k) via Betterment • SF relocation support • Pre-tax transit / parking • Daily catered meals, snacks, and drinks • Onsite gym access and secure bike storage

Interview Process

• Pending approval • Application review • Inbound app review • Initial screen • Technical screen • AI & product screen • Executive alignment • Work trial • Offer

Logistics

• Role is fully onsite in San Francisco — 5 days/week — please only apply if you can commit to this • No visa sponsorship available

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by David Joseph & Co., the recruiting partner managing this search on behalf of Klarity.