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title: "Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Robotics and Physical AI"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
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apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/c922082d-789c-4568-8ed5-8fe9e23193c0"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: ai-machine-learning
region: united-states
skills: ["computer-vision", "cpp", "llm", "python"]
date_posted: 2026-09-10T17:25:53.240Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T16:29:34.147Z
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# Research Engineer / Research Scientist, Robotics and Physical AI

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/c922082d-789c-4568-8ed5-8fe9e23193c0

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a hands-on research and engineering role at a small, early-stage AI training data company focused on physical AI and robotics. You will work across the full stack, from learning algorithms and simulation to real-world robot deployment, helping push the frontier of how robots perceive, plan, and act in the physical world.

##### What You'll Do

- Develop learning systems for robots, including policies, world models, and vision-language-action models.

- Build and maintain simulation environments and evaluation frameworks for robotic tasks.

- Apply and advance computer vision and perception algorithms for autonomous robots.

- Build pipelines connecting simulation and real-world robot deployment, covering real-to-sim and sim-to-real workflows.

- Work directly with robot hardware, sensors, actuators, and embedded systems to prototype and validate capabilities.

- Train and evaluate reinforcement-learning and imitation-learning systems for manipulation, locomotion, or mobile platforms.

- Integrate and experiment with robot platforms to test algorithms in the physical world.

- Create tools and infrastructure that accelerate robotics research and development.

- Collaborate with external robotics companies and research labs on technical problems.

##### What We're Looking For

- Demonstrated research or engineering experience in robotics and AI, beyond academic experiments alone. New graduates with strong robotics backgrounds are welcome.

- Strong software skills in both C++ and Python.

- Practical experience with deep learning, reinforcement learning, and computer vision.

- Hands-on experience with real-to-sim or sim-to-real robotics workflows.

- Familiarity with simulation platforms such as Isaac Lab, MuJoCo, MJX, or Genesis.

- Experience working with robotics hardware, sensors, embedded systems, and 3D modeling tools.

- Comfort moving fluidly across research, engineering, experimentation, and product development with end-to-end ownership.

- Exposure to modern multimodal AI approaches, such as transformers, diffusion models, world models, vision-language-action models, LLMs, or AI agents, is a plus.

- An individual contributor mindset with motivation to ship in a small, collaborative team.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: **$100,000 to $300,000 USD annually**. Visa sponsorship is not available; candidates must be authorized to work in the United States.

##### Location

On-site in **San Francisco, California**. This role is not remote.

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