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True Talent Solutions Partners

Founding ML Research Engineer

San Francisco

AI · vision-language model

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an early-stage industrial AI team building wearable AI copilots for field technicians. As a founding engineering team member, you will own core multimodal systems that provide real-time assistance in complex work environments.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Build and ship agentic vision-language model pipelines for smart glasses and industrial workflows.
  • Develop evaluation harnesses, capture failure modes, and create data and fine-tuning loops to improve model quality.
  • Adapt model orchestration and inference for changing connectivity, latency, and edge hardware constraints.
  • Create real-time voice and video interfaces, including conversational and proactive assistance modes.
  • Fine-tune open-weight multimodal models for enterprise deployments, including supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, and quantization.

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 product outcomes and delivering AI systems to end users, including multi-step agents with real tool use.
  • Strong applied expertise in model orchestration, visual reasoning, fine-tuning, evaluation, and data workflows.
  • Experience with tools and frameworks such as vLLM, Triton, Ray Serve, ONNX, TensorRT, Hugging Face Transformers, and Docker.
  • Background in edge inference, on-premise deployment, wearable AI, augmented reality, autonomous driving vision, or industrial AI is valuable.
  • Strong CS, machine learning, or engineering fundamentals, plus startup
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