True Talent Solutions Partners

Founding ML Researcher

San Francisco
Salary
$180,000 - $230,000 annually
Level
Junior
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 29 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage industrial AI startup building wearable AI assistants for field technicians in critical infrastructure. You will help develop and ship the multimodal AI systems that power real-time assistance on smart glasses.

What You'll Do

  • Build production agentic vision-language pipelines that use visual reasoning and tools to support industrial workflows.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks, capture model failures, and use field data to improve model quality over successive releases.
  • Adapt model orchestration and edge inference to changing connectivity, latency, and hardware constraints.
  • Create real-time voice and video interfaces, including conversational and proactive alert experiences.
  • Fine-tune open-weight multimodal models for enterprise deployments, including supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and quantization.

What We're Looking For

  • 0 to 3 years of experience shipping production vision-language or multimodal AI systems, with Python and PyTorch.
  • Experience owning model and orchestration layers end to end, building multi-step tool-using agents, and delivering product outcomes for end users.
  • Applied computer vision expertise, including visual reasoning and, where relevant, detection or segmentation; experience with fine-tuning and evaluation rather than only pretraining from scratch.
  • Familiarity with model serving and deployment tools such as vLLM, Triton, Ray Serve, ONNX, TensorRT, Hugging Face Transformers, and quantization methods.
  • Startup or high-ownership engineering experience, with a strong foundation in computer science, machine learning, or engineering, or equivalent production experience.
  • Interest or experience in wearables, AR, industrial AI, autonomous systems, or edge and on-premise deployment is valuable.
  • Must be authorized to work without new employer visa sponsorship.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $180,000 to $230,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, United States.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Computer Vision · Hugging Face

Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 126 open postings.

Standard for data science / ML roles

Machine Learning · PyTorch · Python

Common in data science / ML postings at any company.

Compared with True Talent Solutions Partners's other open jobs.

The team: Client Roles

This role is one of 125 open in Client Roles. 125 were posted in the last 30 days, including 5 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (70 of 125), TypeScript (45 of 125), LLM (44 of 125), React (37 of 125), Machine Learning (35 of 125), AWS (26 of 125), JavaScript (24 of 125)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.

Posting history

Reposted 2 times since 25 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

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