# 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: 2026-11-05
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/bc391ceb-ef2b-4444-a193-165e2ff7febe

## Description

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 

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