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 3 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage industrial AI startup as a founding engineer building the multimodal AI core of wearable tools for field technicians. You will own production vision-language systems from model orchestration through deployment on real hardware.

What You'll Do

  • Build and ship agentic vision-language pipelines that support industrial workflows such as inspections and standard operating procedures.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks, capture failure cases, and use field data to improve model quality across 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 assistance modes.
  • Fine-tune and optimize open-weight multimodal models for enterprise and on-premise deployment.

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 AI product outcomes, including agent loops with tool use, model orchestration, evaluation, and data improvement workflows.
  • Applied experience with fine-tuning methods such as SFT or RLHF, plus deployment and inference optimization. Pretraining from scratch is not the focus.
  • Familiarity with technologies such as vLLM, Triton, Ray Serve, ONNX, TensorRT, Hugging Face Transformers, quantization, and edge AI.
  • Background in computer vision, wearable or AR systems, industrial AI, or related applied multimodal work. Experience with on-premise models or constrained hardware is useful.
  • Strong CS, machine learning, or engineering fundamentals, and a record of independently driving product decisions from idea to production.

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 123 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 127 open in Client Roles. 127 were posted in the last 30 days, including 7 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (66 of 127), LLM (48 of 127), TypeScript (46 of 127), React (44 of 127), JavaScript (27 of 127), Machine Learning (27 of 127), AWS (25 of 127)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Other openings for this role

2 postings for this role in San Francisco since 2 November 2026, 1 still open. None has been taken down and posted again.

  • 3 November 2026 – open (this posting)
  • 2 November 2026 – closed 3 November 2026

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