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 8 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage industrial AI team building wearable AI tools for field technicians. You will own key parts of the multimodal AI stack, taking vision-language and agentic systems from development into real-world production.

What You'll Do

  • Build and ship agentic vision-language model pipelines for smart glasses, including multi-step visual reasoning and tool use in industrial workflows.
  • Develop evaluation frameworks, capture model failures, and build data and fine-tuning loops that improve quality with each release.
  • Adapt model connectivity and edge inference for varied network conditions, latency requirements, and hardware constraints.
  • Create real-time voice and video interfaces, including conversational and proactive alert experiences.
  • Fine-tune and optimize multimodal models for enterprise deployments, including on-premise environments.

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 layers.
  • Strong Python and PyTorch skills, plus experience with tools such as vLLM, Triton, Ray Serve, ONNX, TensorRT, Hugging Face Transformers, and Docker.
  • Hands-on experience with visual reasoning, multi-step agent loops and tool use, evaluation design, data flywheels, and applied fine-tuning such as SFT or RLHF.
  • Product engineering experience delivering AI features to end users, ideally in a startup or high-ownership engineering environment.
  • Background or demonstrated interest in computer vision, wearables, industrial AI, AR, autonomous driving, or edge and on-premise inference.
  • A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, machine learning, or engineering, or equivalent relevant experience.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $180,000 to $230,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site, five days per week in San Francisco, California, United States.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Computer Vision · Docker · Hugging Face

Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 129 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 130 open in Client Roles. 130 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 (68 of 130), LLM (45 of 130), TypeScript (39 of 130), React (37 of 130), Machine Learning (35 of 130), AWS (31 of 130), GCP (22 of 130)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

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

Posting history

Reposted 4 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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