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 6 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage industrial AI team building the multimodal AI core for wearable assistants used in field operations. You will own production vision-language systems end to end, from model orchestration and evaluation to deployment on real devices.

What You'll Do

  • Build and ship agentic vision-language pipelines that support visual reasoning and multi-step workflows.
  • Develop evaluation tools, capture failure modes, and create data and fine-tuning loops that improve model quality.
  • Adapt model serving to field connectivity, latency constraints, and edge hardware, including graceful fallbacks.
  • Create real-time voice and video interfaces, including conversational and proactive assistance modes.
  • Fine-tune open-source multimodal models for enterprise deployment, using approaches such as SFT, RLHF, and quantization.

What We're Looking For

  • Typically 2 to 6 years of experience building and shipping production VLM or multimodal AI systems, using Python and PyTorch.
  • Evidence of owning AI product outcomes, including agent loops with real tool use, model orchestration, evaluation, and data improvement workflows.
  • Applied experience fine-tuning and deploying models, rather than a focus solely on pretraining from scratch.
  • Experience with production vision-language systems, computer vision, and image or video reasoning; wearable, AR, industrial AI, or autonomous systems experience is valuable.
  • Familiarity with serving and optimizing models using tools such as vLLM, Triton, Ray Serve, ONNX, TensorRT, Hugging Face Transformers, and quantization methods.
  • A CS, machine learning, or engineering degree and a record of independently driving product work are preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $180,000 to $230,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is 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 125 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 6 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (71 of 125), TypeScript (47 of 125), LLM (45 of 125), React (42 of 125), Machine Learning (36 of 125), AWS (31 of 125), JavaScript (27 of 125)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted 3 times since 2 November 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

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