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Founding ML Engineer, Computer Vision (Object Detection)

New York
Salary
$200,000 - $260,000 annually
Level
Senior
Work type
Remote · US only
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 20 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

As the founding machine learning engineer, you will set the technical direction for fine-grained visual item identification at an internet marketplace platform. You will build production models that identify specific brands, models, editions, and variants, helping users make informed decisions with confidence.

What You'll Do

  • Design and own computer vision architecture, adapting foundation vision models to specialized catalog identification.
  • Define category-level accuracy standards and develop calibrated confidence scoring so the product can communicate uncertainty.
  • Build feedback loops that use model errors to guide labeling priorities in partnership with the labeling team.
  • Balance broader category coverage against deeper accuracy in existing categories.
  • Own the path from model research to production serving, including latency, cost, and reliability.
  • Explain model capabilities and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 5 years of applied computer vision experience, including production systems delivered at meaningful scale.
  • Hands-on experience with fine-grained or instance-level recognition, distinguishing between visually similar items where near-misses are not sufficient.
  • Production experience fine-tuning and deploying vision transformers or CNNs with PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Experience adapting foundation vision models to specific use cases or catalogs.
  • Ability to design and run evaluation frameworks that measure model improvements beyond training loss.
  • Experience with calibrated confidence scoring and ownership of model serving decisions, including latency, cost, and reliability.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, and comfort providing technical leadership on an open-ended problem.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $260,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid role based in New York, New York.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Computer Vision · TensorFlow

Rare in Clera's other 299 open postings.

Standard for data science / ML roles

Machine Learning · PyTorch

Common in data science / ML postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 346 open in Engineering. 280 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 (154 of 346), Python (146 of 346), TypeScript (144 of 346), React (117 of 346), Machine Learning (85 of 346), PostgreSQL (61 of 346), JavaScript (59 of 346)

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