We are an innovative, Vancouver-based startup at the forefront of robotics, AI, and machine vision technologies. Backed by VC funding and recognized as a 2024 BCTIA Growth Award winner, we are on a mission to redefine the future of AI-driven robotic vision systems. Apera AI helps manufacturers make their factories more flexible and productive. Robots enhanced with Apera’s software have 4D Vision – the ability to see and handle objects with human-like capability. Challenging applications such as bin picking, sorting, packaging, and assembly are now open to fast, precise, and reliable automation. Apera is led by an experienced team from high-growth companies focused on robotics, artificial intelligence, and advanced manufacturing.
Apera AI is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to build and improve the tools, infrastructure, and pipelines that power our AI model training. This role focuses on enhancing the synthetic data pipeline, automating training evaluations, and developing systems that connect data quality to model performance. You will work closely with technical artists, applied scientists, and simulation developers to deliver scalable, production-grade systems for robust AI deployment.
Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
Purpose
Your work will determine how reliably and accurately our AI models perform in real-world industrial environments. By improving the data they learn from, you will directly influence the precision, speed, and robustness of robotic systems operating on factory floors.
Growth
You will develop deep technical skills across computer vision, machine learning, simulation, and experimentation. You will gain experience connecting training data to model outcomes, applying state-of-the-art techniques, and improving models through systematic iteration and analysis.
Motivators
You will take full ownership of the connection between synthetic data and model performance. Your ideas, experiments, and tools will define how we train production-grade AI models and how we scale to new use cases with confidence and reliability.
Major Objectives
Identify and Advance Opportunities in the Data Generation Pipeline
You will identify opportunities to improve the synthetic data pipeline and deliver a meaningful enhancement that increases dataset quality, control, or scalability. Your contribution will reflect your ability to assess what’s missing and act decisively to improve it.
Design, Test, and Validate New Data-Centric ML Techniques
You will propose and implement new data-generation or augmentation techniques based on your own assessment of model bottlenecks, training patterns, or failure modes. You will validate effectiveness through structured training experiments and benchmark results against existing approaches. Your work will contribute a measurable advancement to how Apera trains accurate, generalizable AI models.
Collaborate Across Disciplines to Deliver Data-Driven Improvements
Partner with ML scientists and technical artists to translate visual intuition and ML needs into robust software. Identify gaps in configuration, data realism, and augmentation strategy that impact performance. Ultimately you will deliver generalized improvements to Apera’s vision model training process.
Critical Subtasks
Culture and Situation Fit
At Apera AI, we value initiative, clarity, and technical depth. This role is for someone who sees data as a core design space in machine learning—not just an input but a lever to drive performance. You’ll thrive here if you take ownership of the problems you see, enjoy collaborating across disciplines, and are excited to push the boundaries of how real-world AI systems are trained and deployed.
Required Qualifications
Bonus Experience
Why Join Us?
People are our greatest strength. They are friendly, smart, and driven to build amazing products; we tackle challenges as a team, we are close-knit and scrappy. We also offer competitive total compensation, health benefits, and vacation. Our teams are motivated, talented, hardworking, and have an entrepreneurial spirit. We enjoy making large impact, solving challenging problems rooted in real-world physics using science, imagination, creativity, and persistence.
What do we offer?
This range reflects the base salary for a highly qualified candidate. The final offer will depend on a range of factors including your unique skills, experience, contributions to team diversity, and the value you bring to our vision of transforming industrial automation with AI-powered vision systems.
Yearly based
Vancouver