# 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
- Salary: $180K–230K
- Posted: 2026-11-15
- Skills: Client Roles
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/40e085b6-15e7-46c0-a9cd-34349ca387dd

## Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an early-stage industrial AI team building wearable AI copilots for field technicians working in critical infrastructure. You will own key parts of the multimodal AI stack, from production vision-language systems to edge inference and real-time voice-video experiences.


WHAT YOU'LL DO

 - Build and ship agentic vision-language pipelines for smart glasses, including tool-using visual reasoning for inspections and operational procedures.

 - Develop evaluation frameworks, capture failure cases, and create data and fine-tuning loops that improve model quality over time.

 - Adapt inference and connectivity for field conditions through model orchestration, runtime optimization, and graceful fallback.

 - Create real-time voice and video interfaces with conversational and proactive alert capabilities.

 - Fine-tune open-weight multimodal models for enterprise and on-premise deployment, including supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and quantization.


WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

 - Two to six years of experience shipping production vision-language or multimodal AI systems, using Python and PyTorch.

 - End-to-end ownership of production AI products and their outcomes, including model orchestration and multi-step agents with real tool use.

 - Hands-on experience with visual reasoning, model fine-tuning, evaluation design, and data flywheels; experience with edge inference or on-premise deployment is valuable.

 - Startup, founding-engineer, or similarly high-ownership experience, with a track record of driving greenfield work and product decisions.


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