# Founding ML Research Engineer at True Talent Solutions Partners

- Company: True Talent Solutions Partners
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco
- Level: Senior
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-11-08
- Skills: AI, vision-language
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/c6776015-f20f-437a-9a39-c69f10d75a3b

## Description

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 

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