Job Description

Apera is an innovative, Vancouver-based company at the forefront of robotics, AI, and machine vision — recognized with the 2025 Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Leadership Award and the 2024 BC Tech "Company of the Year, Growth" award. Were on a mission to redefine AI-driven robotic vision.

Apera AI helps manufacturers make their factories more flexible and productive. Robots enhanced with Aperas software have 4D Vision — the ability to see and grasp objects with human-like capability. Challenging applications such as bin picking, sorting, packaging, and assembly are now open to fast, precise, and reliable automation. We work with the worlds leading automotive OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers.

Our portfolio spans Vue (our 4D Vision software), Forge (a no-code simulation and AI training studio where customers build, validate, and de-risk robotic cells before any hardware is bought), and VuePod, our new turnkey, productized bin-picking cell.

Job Description

Robots can do amazing things - if they can see. That’s where you come in. We’re Apera AI. Our breakthrough 4D Vision™ systems turn blind robots into intelligent, adaptable workers. But that transformation doesn’t happen without great teams.

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning and Computer Vision Applied Scientist with outstanding problem-solving skills to join our AI team. This is an in-person role based in our Vancouver office, where you will collaborate closely with a small group of ambitious engineers and applied scientists delivering the future of robotic perception. Your work will be both grounded in state-of-the-art research and applied to guiding industrial robots on factory floors around the world.

You will own projects end-to-end from literature review through prototyping, benchmarking, and scaling. This includes:

• Extending Apera’s industry best object detection, stereo depth estimation,
  
  
  
  and 6d pose estimation modules
• Integrating foundation models into our perception stack to improve generalization and few-shot/zero-shot capabilities
• Collaborating with the C++ application team to get models deployed and user experiences optimized
• Collaborating with the infrastructure team to train and manage data on AWS
• Tracking the latest publications in top computer vision and robotics venues
• Prototyping and then implementing production training and deployment, mainly in PyTorch
• Optimizing models for real-time deployment at the edge (~1 Hz, powerful NVIDIA GPU) to support high accuracy, high robustness robot guidance
• Engineering for industrial reliability of 99.9%

About You

You are motivated, talented, hardworking and have an entrepreneurial spirit. You enjoy making large impact at your company. You enjoy solving challenging problems rooted in real-world physics using science, imagination, creativity, and persistence.

What We’re Looking For

• STEM bachelors degree
• 5+ years of experience in using deep learning for CV
• 4+ years of experience in software development
• Bonus:
• Master’s or PHD degree with focus on computer vision and machine learning
• Experience in 3D geometry and related topics in graphics and deep learning

Why Apera?

• We offer a competitive compensation package, including a base salary range of CAD $140,000–$180,000 plus stock options, designed to recognize your expertise and align your success with the company’s growth.
• You’re building systems that support teams working on real, deployed AI and robotics solutions, not hypothetical future tech.
• A chance to do meaningful, foundational work in a company that values execution and clarity.
• A culture of curiosity: we experiment, learn rapid, and share openly.
• Well-funded with a recent Series A to fuel ambitious product roadmaps and growth.
• Trusted by big-name automotive in TIER 1 suppliers.
• High-impact work with autonomy and clear paths to grow.

Join us to make robotics more accessible, predictable, and powerful.