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 5 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage industrial AI team building a smart-glasses product powered by agentic vision-language models. You will own core parts of the multimodal AI stack, bringing real-time assistance to field workflows in sectors such as data centers, energy, and aerospace.

What You'll Do

  • Build and ship production agentic VLM pipelines for visual reasoning across industrial procedures and inspections.
  • Create evaluation harnesses, capture failure modes, and develop data-to-fine-tuning loops that improve model quality over time.
  • Adapt model orchestration and edge inference to changing connectivity, latency, and hardware constraints.
  • Develop real-time voice and video interfaces, including conversational and proactive alert experiences.
  • Fine-tune open-source multimodal models using approaches such as SFT and RLHF, and optimize them for on-premise deployments.

What We're Looking For

  • Typically 2 to 6 years of experience shipping production VLM or multimodal AI systems, with Python and PyTorch.
  • Experience taking vision-language systems from development through deployment, including model orchestration, applied fine-tuning, and evaluation.
  • Hands-on experience building multi-step agents with real tool use, rather than only single-turn chat or basic retrieval workflows.
  • A track record of shipping AI products for end users and owning product outcomes, ideally in a startup or other fast-paced environment.
  • Strong computer vision and vision-language background, with interest in wearables and industrial applications.
  • Experience with edge inference or on-premise deployment is valuable, including tools such as vLLM, Triton, TensorRT, ONNX, or quantization.
  • A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, machine learning, or engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

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

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 7 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (67 of 125), LLM (49 of 125), TypeScript (44 of 125), React (39 of 125), Machine Learning (31 of 125), JavaScript (28 of 125), AWS (25 of 125)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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Posting history

Reposted 2 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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