Computer Vision & Robotics Intern

Clera; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 56,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Relocation support

Job summary

Clera in San Francisco, CA, is seeking a student engineer to help develop computer vision for factory quality inspection. You will build detection/classification pipelines, test perception under motion and lighting changes, and work with both synthetic and real data.

You will train and debug models in PyTorch, explore 3D perception, and optimize for low latency and edge deployment, deploying in real factory conditions as needed.

Qualifications

• Currently studying computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience in computer vision, machine learning, or robotics, and comfort working with Python.
• Interest in computer vision and physical AI, with the ability to learn quickly, debug problems, build, and take ownership.
• Experience with PyTorch, OpenCV, object detection, tracking, synthetic data, SLAM or VIO, 3D vision, CUDA or TensorRT, ROS2, or NVIDIA Jetson is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve computer vision pipelines for detection, classification, tracking, and temporal understanding.
• Test first-person perception in challenging conditions, including camera motion, occlusion, motion blur, and changing lighting.
• Work with synthetic and real-world data to identify 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 deployments to assess performance in real factory environments.

Skills

Computer vision

Python

PyTorch

OpenCV

ROS2

CUDA

TensorRT

Tools

Jetson

Job description

About the Role

Join an early-stage industrial automation startup's engineering team to help develop computer vision systems for factory quality inspection. The system uses first-person cameras to understand manual assembly, recognize process steps, and detect deviations, with the longer-term goal of supporting robotic automation.

What You'll Do

• Build and improve computer vision pipelines for detection, classification, tracking, and temporal understanding.

• Test first-person perception in challenging conditions, including camera motion, occlusion, motion blur, and changing lighting.

• Work with synthetic and real-world data to identify 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 deployments to assess performance in real factory environments.

What We're Looking For

• Currently studying computer science, robotics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or a related field.

• Hands-on experience in computer vision, machine learning, or robotics, and comfort working with Python.

• Interest in computer vision and physical AI, with the ability to learn quickly, debug problems, build, and take ownership.

• Experience with PyTorch, OpenCV, object detection, tracking, synthetic data, SLAM or VIO, 3D vision, CUDA or TensorRT, ROS2, or NVIDIA Jetson is helpful.

Compensation & Benefits

Visa sponsorship is available. Relocation from Germany is supported.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.