Founding Engineer, Computer Vision & Robotics

About the role

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.

See the posting on Clera's site