True Talent Solutions Partners

Founding ML Researcher

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

Open. First seen 30 October 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage industrial AI startup as a founding member of its engineering team. You will build and ship the multimodal AI systems behind smart-glasses assistants, helping field workers handle real-world inspections and operational workflows.

What You'll Do

  • Build production agentic vision-language pipelines that use multi-step visual reasoning and tools for industrial workflows.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks, capture failure modes, and create data and fine-tuning loops that improve model quality.
  • 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, using approaches such as supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and quantization.

What We're Looking For

  • Zero to three years of experience building and shipping production vision-language or multimodal AI systems, with Python and PyTorch.
  • Experience owning model orchestration and product outcomes, including multi-step agent loops with real tool use and evaluation frameworks.
  • Applied computer vision and fine-tuning experience, such as supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, detection or segmentation, and model evaluation.
  • Experience deploying AI products beyond research prototypes; edge inference, on-premise deployment, or constrained hardware experience is valuable.
  • Familiarity with tools such as vLLM, Triton, Ray Serve, ONNX, TensorRT, Hugging Face Transformers, and quantization methods.
  • Background in a startup or high-intensity engineering environment, and strong CS, machine learning, or engineering fundamentals, or equivalent production experience.
  • Interest or experience in wearables, augmented reality, autonomous systems, or industrial AI.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $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

Computer Vision · Hugging Face

Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 124 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 (71 of 125), TypeScript (45 of 125), LLM (44 of 125), React (37 of 125), Machine Learning (35 of 125), AWS (28 of 125), JavaScript (25 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 25 October 2026: a posting for this role in San Francisco was taken down and the role was posted again.

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