Staff AI Frontend Engineer — Klarity

David Joseph & Company
San Francisco, US
On-site

Why this role

Pace
Fast Paced
Collaboration
High
Autonomy
High
Decision Impact
Team
Role Level
Individual Contributor

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • Architecting scalable frontend systems
  • Building reusable component libraries
  • Improving processes with AI companion agents
  • Shipping multiple features per day
Typical background
High-ownership startup buildersReal-time frontend systems buildersWebRTC product engineers

Transferable backgrounds

  • Coming from Staff AI Frontend Engineer
  • Coming from Senior Frontend Engineer
  • Coming from Product Manager

Skills & requirements

Required

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwindAi-native Development WorkflowWebrtcAi-assisted SDLC Process DesignGenerative DashboardsAgentic Chat ExperiencesPerformance OptimizationEnd-to-end Product Feature Ownership

Preferred

Python BackendPrior Founder Or Founding Engineer ExperienceVideo Pipeline Or Voice AI Product ExperienceGenerative UI Or Generative Dashboard Systems ExperienceStrong Github / Shipped Product Portfolio

Stack & domain

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwindWebrtcPythonBloombergMatlabLeadershipCommunicationProduct IntuitionOwnershipAIFinanceHealthcare

About the role

Original posting from David Joseph & Company via LinkedIn

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.

Source: David Joseph & Company careers (LinkedIn)

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