Founding Engineer, Computer Vision & Robotics
CleraOn-site - United StatesPosted 2026-11-03
- This listing's locations
- On-site - United States
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- On site
- Compensation
- USD 120000–200000 per year
Department: Engineering
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About the Role
Join an early-stage industrial automation startup as its first engineer, building a perception system that understands manual work in factories. You will take computer vision from experimentation through production deployment, starting with real-time quality inspection and helping shape the technical foundations for future robotic automation.
What You'll Do
- Build perception systems for detection, classification, tracking, temporal understanding, and 3D vision.
- Develop first-person vision that handles camera motion, changing viewpoints, occlusion, motion blur, and variable lighting.
- Work with the technical leadership team to improve models, datasets, and evaluation based on failures in real deployments.
- Build geometric vision capabilities for calibration, localization, pose estimation, and coordinate transformations.
- Train and debug PyTorch models using synthetic and real-world data.
- Optimize low-latency inference and deploy systems on NVIDIA Jetson using TensorRT.
- Work directly on factory floors and turn deployment learnings into reusable perception infrastructure.
What We're Looking For
- At least 3 years of experience building and deploying computer vision, robotics perception, or applied machine learning systems outside notebooks or lab environments.
- Experience shipping real-time perception systems in computer vision, robotics, industrial robotics, AR/VR, ADAS, or physical AI.
- Strong Python, PyTorch, and OpenCV skills, including experience developing detection, classification, or tracking models.
- Experience with geometric vision and ownership of an underspecified physical-world problem from development through deployment.
- Experience with edge deployment or production inference optimization, and working with users or in field deployments.
- Experience with synthetic data and Sim2Real, SLAM or VIO, depth estimation, 3D reconstruction, CUDA, TensorRT, ROS2, robot manipulation, or robot learning is beneficial.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $120,000 to $200,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available. The role includes an opportunity to help shape the engineering team and technical direction.
Location
On-site in the United States.