Sr. AI / ML Engineer

Company: Nextera Robotics Location: Boston, MA Remote Work: Not specified Employment Type: Full-time Experience Level: 3+ years Salary Range: $160K - $210K Visa Requirement: US citizen/visa only Skills Mentioned: ML, Python, computer vision, object detection, segmentation, visual understanding, multimodal models, VLMs, LLMs, multimodal AI systems, MLOps, cloud infrastructure, Django, MySQL

About the role

Nextera Robotics is a fast-growing Industrial Robotics and AI company founded at MIT. We build and deploy advanced AI systems and autonomous technologies for Fortune 500 clients across construction, energy, telecommunications, and other industrial sectors. We are building a future where AI-native systems and robots handle repetitive, high-friction, and physically demanding work. We move fast with small, agile teams. Autonomy is expected. You’ll see your work go from idea to production and create real value in the field. The work is challenging, deeply technical, and highly rewarding. This role is ideal for a strong programmer with a versatile software development background and a passion for AI, machine learning, and robotics.

What you will do:

Build and productionize advanced computer vision and multimodal AI systems for real-world industrial deployment, with a focus on detection, segmentation, visual understanding, and VLM/LLM-powered reasoning.
Transform large-scale visual data collected by autonomous robots into actionable insights for progress tracking, safety monitoring, and project intelligence.
Develop AI systems for use in robotics, construction, energy, and telecommunications.
Work closely with engineers and annotators to expand and improve high-quality training datasets.
Support and scale machine learning operations (MLOps).
Build and maintain cloud infrastructure and ML pipelines for training, evaluation, and deployment.

Required:

3+ years of proven academic or industry experience building computer vision systems, including areas such as object detection,... segmentation,... visual understanding,... or multimodal models.
Strong Python skills,... build,... test,... iterate quickly in production-oriented environment.
Proficiency using modern AI-assisted development tools such as coding agents,... GitHub Copilot,... similar systems to accelerate implementation,... debugging,... iteration.
Solid problem-solving skills,... strong ownership,... ability to communicate clearly across technical/non-technical teams.
Familiarity with data pipelines,... model evaluation,... real-world ML workflows.

Good to have:

Strong background in mathematics,... statistics,... physics,... or another highly quantitative field.
Experience with VLMs (Vision-Language Models), LLMs (Large Language Models), or multimodal AI systems.
Familiarity with MLOps (machine learning operations), cloud infrastructure,... training or deployment pipelines.
Back-end experience with modern frameworks; Django... MySQL are a plus.

Working at Nextera... great opportunity for those who love to get things done.... challenging,... deeply technical,... incredibly rewarding - you’ll see your models/systems make jump from development to real-world deployment.... excited to learn more about you... welcome you to Nextera Robotics team! Competitive salary based on experience plus great perks.... Join YC-backed startup shaping future of robotics!

About Nextera Robotics

Nextera Robotics is an AI-native Robotics... Industrial Automation company founded at MIT. Founded: 2015 Batch: S20 Team Size: 20 Status: Active Location: Boston

Application URL

[Apply here](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nextera-robotics/jobs/U3xCWig-sr-ai-ml-engineer)