About the role#
Clera is an early-stage industrial automation team building computer vision systems to understand manual work in factories. You will work on the core perception system, helping bring real-time quality inspection from controlled experiments into production environments, with potential applications in robotic automation.
What you'll do#
- Build and improve vision pipelines for detection, classification, tracking, and temporal understanding.
- Test first-person perception systems under camera motion, changing viewpoints, occlusion, motion blur, and variable lighting.
- Use synthetic and real-world data to find failure cases and improve model performance.
- Train, evaluate, and debug computer vision models using PyTorch.
- Explore geometric vision, calibration, localization, pose estimation, and 3D perception.
- Optimize models for low-latency inference and edge deployment.
- Build evaluation tools and support deployments to learn how systems perform on factory floors.
What you'll need#
- Currently studying computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field.
- Comfortable programming in Python.
- Hands-on experience in computer vision, machine learning, or robotics.
- Hands-on experience with robotics or perception using real sensor or camera data.
- Curiosity about computer vision and physical AI.
- Ability to learn quickly, build, debug, and take ownership.
- Experience with PyTorch, OpenCV, object detection, tracking, synthetic data, SLAM/VIO, 3D vision, CUDA/TensorRT, ROS2, or NVIDIA Jetson is a plus.
Location & details#
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment: Full-time.
- Term: Rolling.
- Visa sponsorship is available.
- Relocation support from Germany is supported.
About Clera
Clera operates as an AI career agent based in San Francisco. The company connects job seekers with startups backed by venture capital firms like YC, Index, and a16z. Founded in 2025, the organization maintains offices in the United States and Germany. It employs approximately 19 people.
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