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Founding Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision (Object Detection)

Clera

Company websitegetclera.com (Clera, opens in new tab)

Base salary $200K  to $260K

Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in New York, NY

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  • LocationNew York, NY
  • WorkplaceRemote
  • Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
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About this job

About the Role

As the founding computer vision engineer at an early-stage internet marketplace, you will set the technical direction for identifying and valuing items from images. You will build production models that distinguish closely related items and communicate uncertainty clearly, helping users make decisions with confidence.

What You'll Do

  • Design and own computer vision architecture for fine-grained identification, adapting foundation vision models to a specific catalog.

  • Define accuracy standards by category and build calibrated confidence scores so the product can express uncertainty rather than guess.

  • Work with labeling partners to turn model errors into priorities for future data collection.

  • Balance expansion into new categories with improving accuracy in existing ones.

  • Own the path from model research to production serving, including latency, cost, and reliability.

  • Explain the model's capabilities and limitations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What We're Looking For

  • At least 5 years of applied computer vision experience, including production systems shipped at meaningful scale.

  • Industry experience with image or item identification, object recognition, or detection, including fine-grained or instance-level classification where similar items must be distinguished accurately.

  • Hands-on production experience fine-tuning and deploying vision transformers or CNNs with PyTorch or TensorFlow.

  • Experience adapting foundation vision models, building evaluation frameworks beyond loss metrics, and developing calibrated confidence scoring.

  • Experience owning production model serving decisions, including latency, cost, and reliability; familiarity with low-latency APIs is useful.

  • Strong communication skills and the ability to lead technical decisions on an open-ended problem.

  • Experience with active learning, human-in-the-loop labeling, visual search, marketplaces, or an early-stage startup is a plus.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

Hybrid, based in New York, New York, United States.

Source: Clera on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)

Pay in context

This role's base floor ($200,000) is above 73% of the 3,641 Data & ML roles nationwide listed on this site; 126 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $169,157; the middle half runs from $137,275 to $200,000.

Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.

This range next to 6 other live Clera roles with the nearest advertised base floor
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This range next to 6 other live Clera roles with the nearest advertised base floor
RolePublished base
Founding Machine Learning Engineer, Computer Vision (Object Detection) (this listing)$200K - $260K
Founding Product Engineer$200K - $250K
Founding Product Engineer$200K - $300K
Founding Engineer$200K - $300K
Founding Enterprise Account Executive$200K - $250K
Founding Product Engineer$200K - $250K
US Founding Engineer$200K - $400K

Same $100K to $400K scale as every card. All Clera roles · How to read the bar

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Employer-stated posting date
2026-11-04
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Location as the employer wrote it: New York (remote)

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

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