Clera

Founding ML Engineer, Computer Vision (Object Detection)

New York
Salary
$200,000 - $260,000 annually
Level
Senior
Work type
Remote · US only
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 28 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage marketplace company as its first machine learning engineer focused on computer vision. You will lead the design and production deployment of fine-grained item identification models, helping users identify products accurately and reliably from photos.

What You'll Do

  • Design computer vision architecture for identifying items by brand, model, edition, and variant, adapting foundation vision models to a specific catalog.
  • Define category-level accuracy standards and build calibrated confidence scoring so the product can communicate uncertainty appropriately.
  • Create feedback loops that use model errors to guide labeling priorities in partnership with the labeling team.
  • Set priorities between expanding category coverage and improving accuracy 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 company stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 5 years of applied computer vision experience, including shipping systems to production at meaningful scale.
  • Hands-on experience with fine-grained or instance-level recognition, distinguishing visually similar products where near-misses are not acceptable.
  • 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 that measure progress beyond loss metrics.
  • Experience with calibrated prediction confidence and ownership of model serving decisions, including latency, cost, and reliability.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills, and comfort leading technical direction on an open-ended problem. Active learning, human-in-the-loop labeling, low-latency APIs, and early-stage startup experience are useful.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $200,000 to $260,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

Hybrid role based in New York, New York.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Computer Vision · TensorFlow

Rare in Clera's other 299 open postings.

Standard for data science / ML roles

Machine Learning · PyTorch

Common in data science / ML postings at any company.

Compared with Clera's other open jobs.

The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY

This role is one of 210 open in Engineering. 144 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in March: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

LLM (103 of 210), TypeScript (95 of 210), Python (82 of 210), React (81 of 210), Machine Learning (42 of 210), PostgreSQL (39 of 210), JavaScript (36 of 210)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on Clera's own job board.

Other openings for this role

2 postings for this role in New York since 20 October 2026, 1 still open. None has been taken down and posted again.

  • 28 October 2026 – open (this posting)
  • 20 October 2026 – closed 28 October 2026

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