# 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: 2026-11-03
- Skills: AI, vision-language, industrial
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/cea45d78-ff15-4119-a11a-d82169cc25d5

## Description

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 const

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