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Senior ML Engineer, Perception

Clera · San Francisco

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In brief

Clera is hiring: Senior ML Engineer, Perception in San Francisco.

Duties

  • Lead perception engineering for a defense technology team developing autonomous systems to detect and track aerial threats.
  • You will own the perception domain and work closely with robotics, controls, and hardware engineers to deliver reliable capabilities on real-world…
  • Design perception architecture spanning detection, tracking, classification, and sensor fusion.
  • Develop computer vision models and training pipelines, then deploy them on-device.
  • Fuse EO/IR and other relevant sensor data across the perception stack.

Required profile

  • At least 5 years of experience building and shipping perception systems on real hardware.
  • Strong Python and C++ skills, with experience developing production machine learning models and end-to-end training-to-deployment pipelines.
  • Hands-on experience building real-time computer vision detection and tracking from live sensor data, and personal ownership of perception models or…

Excerpt from the ad

ABOUT THE ROLE Lead perception engineering for a defense technology team developing autonomous systems to detect and track aerial threats. You will own the perception domain and work closely with robotics, controls, and…

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