# Founding ML Research Engineer at True Talent Solutions Partners

- Company: True Talent Solutions Partners
- Status: Open
- Workplace: On-site
- Location: San Francisco
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-11-01
- Skills: AI, vision-language model
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/true-talent-solutions-partners/3ca9a93d-a9c8-4315-8c28-f0f7cd70fae3

## Description

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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