True Talent Solutions Partners

Founding ML Research Engineer

San Francisco
Salary
$180,000 - $230,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site · San Francisco
Visa
Sponsors visas

Open. First seen 2 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage industrial AI team building wearable AI copilots for field technicians. As a founding engineering team member, you will own core multimodal systems that provide real-time assistance in complex work environments.

What You'll Do

  • Build and ship agentic vision-language model pipelines for smart glasses and industrial workflows.
  • Develop evaluation harnesses, capture failure modes, and create data and fine-tuning loops to improve model quality.
  • Adapt model orchestration and inference for changing connectivity, latency, and edge hardware constraints.
  • Create real-time voice and video interfaces, including conversational and proactive assistance modes.
  • Fine-tune open-weight multimodal models for enterprise deployments, including supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and quantization.

What We're Looking For

  • Typically 2 to 6 years of experience shipping production vision-language or multimodal AI systems, with Python and PyTorch.
  • Experience owning product outcomes and delivering AI systems to end users, including multi-step agents with real tool use.
  • Strong applied expertise in model orchestration, visual reasoning, fine-tuning, evaluation, and data workflows.
  • Experience with tools and frameworks such as vLLM, Triton, Ray Serve, ONNX, TensorRT, Hugging Face Transformers, and Docker.
  • Background in edge inference, on-premise deployment, wearable AI, augmented reality, autonomous driving vision, or industrial AI is valuable.
  • Strong CS, machine learning, or engineering fundamentals, plus startup, founding-team, or similarly fast-paced product-building experience.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $180,000 to $230,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Docker · Hugging Face

Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 128 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 129 open in Client Roles. 129 were posted in the last 30 days, including 6 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (70 of 129), LLM (43 of 129), TypeScript (42 of 129), React (37 of 129), AWS (29 of 129), Machine Learning (28 of 129), JavaScript (26 of 129)

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