# Senior ML Engineer, Perception

About the Role Lead the perception stack for an autonomous defense robotics system, covering detection, tracking, classification, and sensor fusion. You will partner with robotics, controls, and hardware engineers to deliver reliable performance in real-world field conditions. What You'll Do Own perception architecture across detection, tracking, classification, and sensor fusion. Build ML models and training pipelines, then deploy models to embedded hardware. Fuse EO/IR and other sensor data across the perception system. Optimize real-time perception for embedded compute and strict latency budgets. Work closely with robotics, controls, and hardware teams to deliver systems that perform in the field. Mentor perception engineers while contributing directly to implementation. What We're Looking For At least 5 years building and shipping perception systems on physical hardware. Strong Python and production C++ skills, with experience in ML engineering and computer vision. Experience building real-time detection and tracking using live sensor data, including moving-target tracking and ego-motion compensation. Hands-on deployment of ML models with TensorRT, ONNX, or equivalent,

- **Id**: 4209030
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/clera-senior-ml-engineer-perception-4>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T17:24:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T00:27:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1810
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2706
- **Name**: Clera
- **Domain**: getclera.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/clera>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 40
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 6
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 190000
- **Max**: 222000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 222000

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **ONNX** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Sensor Fusion** — Optional: no
- **TensorRT** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T00:27:14Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 48; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 48 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 6
- **Reasons**: conf:3, agency, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T03:29:18Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 222000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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