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Clera

Founding Engineer, Computer Vision & Robotics

San Francisco
Salary
$150,000 - $200,000
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Sponsors visas

Open. First seen 10 October 2026.

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What this role asks for

Particular to this role

CUDA · Computer Vision · ROS

Rare in Clera's other 299 open postings.

Standard for data science / ML roles

Machine Learning · PyTorch · Python

Common in data science / ML postings at any company.

Read against Clera's other open postings on this site.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 292 open in Engineering. 226 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (135 of 292), TypeScript (131 of 292), Python (123 of 292), React (107 of 292), Machine Learning (70 of 292), PostgreSQL (58 of 292), JavaScript (55 of 292)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

About the role

About the Role

Join an early engineering team at an industrial automation startup building computer vision systems for quality inspection in manufacturing. You will take perception from experimentation to reliable factory deployments, helping detect process issues early and laying groundwork for future robotic automation.

What You'll Do

  • Build perception systems for detection, classification, tracking, temporal understanding, and 3D vision.
  • Address first-person vision challenges such as camera motion, changing viewpoints, occlusion, motion blur, and variable lighting.
  • Work with the technical team to turn field failures into improvements to models, data, and evaluation.
  • Develop geometric vision capabilities including calibration, localization, pose estimation, and coordinate transformations.
  • Train and debug PyTorch models on synthetic and real-world data.
  • Optimize low-latency inference and deploy systems on edge hardware in factory environments.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 3 years building and deploying computer vision, robotics perception, or applied ML systems outside notebooks or lab settings.
  • Experience shipping real-time perception systems that perform reliably in changing real-world conditions.
  • Strong Python, PyTorch, and OpenCV skills, with experience developing and debugging detection, classification, or tracking models.
  • Experience with geometric vision and edge deployment or production inference optimization.
  • Technical ownership and judgment to lead an underspecified problem end to end, including working directly with users or in field deployments.
  • Experience with synthetic data, Sim2Real, SLAM or VIO, depth or 3D reconstruction, CUDA or TensorRT, ROS2, or robot learning is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

Annual salary range: $150,000 to $200,000 USD. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.

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