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 4 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 system for wearable assistants used in field operations. You will own key parts of the production vision-language stack, from model orchestration and evaluation to deployment on real-world hardware.

What You'll Do

  • Build production agentic vision-language pipelines that support multi-step visual reasoning and tool use in industrial workflows.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks, capture model failures, and create data and fine-tuning loops to improve model quality.
  • Adapt model orchestration and edge inference to variable connectivity, latency, and deployment constraints.
  • Create real-time voice and video interfaces, including conversational and proactive assistance features.
  • Fine-tune and optimize open-source multimodal models for enterprise and on-premise deployments.

What We're Looking For

  • Two to six years of experience shipping production vision-language or multimodal AI systems, with ownership of model and orchestration components.
  • Strong Python and PyTorch skills, plus experience with tools such as vLLM, Triton, Ray Serve, ONNX, TensorRT, Hugging Face Transformers, Docker, and quantization methods.
  • Applied experience with supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, evaluation design, model serving, and deployment; pretraining from scratch is not the focus.
  • Experience building multi-step agents with real tool use, evaluation harnesses, and data improvement loops.
  • A record of shipping AI products for end users and taking ownership of product outcomes and technical decisions.
  • Background in computer science, machine learning, or engineering, with strong fundamentals; startup or other fast-paced product experience is valuable.
  • Interest or experience in computer vision, wearables, industrial AI, edge inference, or on-premise model deployment.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $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 · Docker · 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 7 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (63 of 125), LLM (48 of 125), TypeScript (44 of 125), React (39 of 125), Machine Learning (31 of 125), JavaScript (27 of 125), AWS (26 of 125)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted once 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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