# 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: 2026-11-04
- Skills: multimodal AI, vision-language stack, hardware
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/9360ff7d-7957-45c4-9e95-4e1ef58c567b

## Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an early-stage industrial AI startup as a founding engineer building the multimodal AI system for wearable assistants used in field operations. You will own key parts of the production vision-language stack, from model orchestration and evaluation to deployment on real-world hardware.


WHAT YOU'LL DO

 - Build production agentic vision-language pipelines that support multi-step visual reasoning and tool use in industrial workflows.

 - Develop evaluation frameworks, capture model failures, and create data and fine-tuning loops to improve model quality.

 - Adapt model orchestration and edge inference to variable connectivity, latency, and deployment constraints.

 - Create real-time voice and video interfaces, including conversational and proactive assistance features.

 - Fine-tune and optimize open-source multimodal models for enterprise and on-premise deployments.


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 components.

 - Strong Python and PyTorch skills, plus experience with tools such as vLLM, Triton, Ray Serve, ONNX, TensorRT, Hugging Face Transformers, Docker, and quantization methods.

 - Applied experience with supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, evaluation design, model serving, and deployment; pretraining from scratch is not the focus.

 - Experience building multi-step agents with real tool use, evaluation harnesses, and data improvement loops.

 - A record of shipping AI products for end users and taking ownership of product o

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