# Founding Engineer, Computer Vision & Robotics at Clera

Founding Engineer, Computer Vision & Robotics at Clera in United States. On-site, full-time, paying $120k–$200k. Posted November 3, 2026.

- Company: Clera
- Location: United States
- Workplace: On-site
- Job type: Full-time
- Pay: $120k–$200k
- Experience: 3+ years
- Posted: 2026-11-03
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/3d1c2818-5971-4e07-bb9f-f956791e98ea/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/founding-engineer-computer-vision-robotics-clera-k0s4ar

## Requirements

- 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.

## Description

### 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.