AI / ML Engineer at Nextera Robotics

Nextera Robotics is a fast-growing Physical AI company founded at MIT. We build and deploy advanced AI systems and autonomous technologies for Fortune 500 clients across construction, energy, and manufacturing. We move fast with small, agile teams. Autonomy is the standard, not the exception. You'll take your work from idea to production and see it create real value in the field. The work is challenging, deeply technical, and seriously rewarding. This role is built for a strong engineer with a versatile software development background and a real passion for AI, machine learning, and robotics. What you'll do: Build and productionize advanced computer vision and multimodal AI systems for real-world industrial deployment - spanning detection, segmentation, visual understanding, and VLM/LLM-powered reasoning. Turn large-scale visual data collected by autonomous robots into actionable insights for progress tracking, safety monitoring, and project intelligence. Develop AI systems deployed across robotics, construction, energy, and telecommunications. Work closely with engineers and annotators to expand and improve high-quality training datasets. Support and scale machine learning operati