Clera

Founding ML Engineer, Computer Vision (Object Detection)

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21 hours ago

Base Salary

$200k - $260k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design computer vision architectures for fine-grained item identification and adapt foundation vision models to the company’s catalog.
  • Define category-level accuracy standards and build calibrated confidence scoring for communicating model uncertainty.
  • Create model-error feedback loops to guide labeling priorities with the labeling team.
  • Prioritize category expansion versus accuracy improvements in existing categories.
  • Own the model serving path from research through production, balancing latency, cost, and reliability at scale.
  • Explain model capabilities, limitations, and technical tradeoffs to stakeholders and lead technical direction on an open-ended problem.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of applied computer vision experience, including shipping production systems at meaningful scale.
  • Hands-on experience with fine-grained or instance-level recognition of visually similar products.
  • Production experience fine-tuning and deploying vision transformers or CNNs using PyTorch or TensorFlow.
  • Experience adapting foundation vision models to specific use cases and designing evaluation frameworks beyond loss metrics.
  • Experience with calibrated prediction confidence and model-serving decisions involving latency, cost, and reliability.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills and comfort leading technical direction.
  • Experience with active learning, human-in-the-loop labeling, low-latency APIs, or early-stage startups is useful.

Benefits

  • Hybrid role based in New York, New York.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

Tech Stack

PyTorchTensorFlow

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