About the role#
Join an early-stage physical AI team developing computer vision systems for manufacturing quality inspection. You will work directly with the founders on perception technology that identifies parts and process steps, and detects assembly deviations in real factory environments.
What you'll do#
- Build and improve computer vision pipelines for detection, classification, tracking, and temporal understanding.
- Test first-person perception under camera motion, occlusion, motion blur, changing viewpoints, and variable lighting.
- Use synthetic and real-world data to find failure cases and improve model performance.
- Train, evaluate, and debug 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 testing during factory deployments.
What you'll need#
- Currently studying computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field.
- Comfortable with Python.
- Hands-on experience in computer vision, machine learning, or robotics.
- Experience working with real sensor or camera data through a computer vision, robotics, or perception project.
- A record of building, debugging, and taking ownership of technical projects.
- Experience with PyTorch, OpenCV, object detection, tracking, synthetic data, SLAM/VIO, 3D vision, CUDA/TensorRT, ROS2, or NVIDIA Jetson is a plus.
Location & details#
- This is a full-time, paid, on-site internship based in San Francisco, California.
- Visa sponsorship is available, including support for relocation from Germany.
- The term is rolling.
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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