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Founding ML Research Engineer

True Talent Solutions Partners
Posted a day ago
Location

San Francisco, CA, US

Salary

$180,000 - $230,000 per year

Contract type

Full Time

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About the Role

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

What You'll Do

  • Build and ship agentic vision-language pipelines for smart glasses, including multi-step visual reasoning and tool use in industrial workflows.

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

  • Adapt field connectivity and edge inference through model orchestration, runtime optimization, and graceful fallbacks for varying latency and network conditions.

  • Create real-time voice and video interfaces, including conversational and proactive alert experiences tailored to end users.

  • Fine-tune and optimize multimodal models for enterprise and on-premise deployment.

What We're Looking For

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

  • Experience owning model and orchestration layers end to end, and delivering AI products with measurable user outcomes.

  • Hands-on experience with multi-step agents that use tools, evaluation design, data feedback loops, and applied model fine-tuning such as SFT or RLHF.

  • Strong applied computer vision and vision-language model experience, rather than pretraining research alone.

  • Startup, founding-engineer, greenfield product, or similarly high-ownership experience, plus a CS, ML, or engineering degree.

  • Experience with edge or on-prem deployment is valuable, including vLLM, Triton, TensorRT, quantization, or constrained hardware; wearable, AR, or autonomous-driving experience is also relevant.

  • Genuine interest in computer vision, wearables, and industrial AI.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $180,000 to $230,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site, five days per week in San Francisco, California, United States.




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