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Founding ML Research Engineer

True Talent Solutions PartnersSan Francisco🇺🇸United States

Quick overview

Salary$180k - $230k/yr
SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeFull Time
Work modeOn Site
LocationSan Francisco, United States
Computer VisionHugging FacePyTorchPythonMachine Learning

Job description

About the Role

Join an early-stage industrial AI team building wearable AI copilots for field workers. You will own core parts of the multimodal AI stack, from production vision-language systems to real-time experiences running on hardware in the field.

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 harnesses, capture failure modes, and turn customer data into fine-tuning cycles that improve model quality.

  • Adapt model orchestration and edge inference to variable connectivity, latency, and hardware constraints.

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

  • Fine-tune and optimize open-weight 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, using Python and PyTorch.

  • End-to-end ownership of production AI products, including model orchestration, evaluation, and downstream product outcomes.

  • Experience building multi-step agents with real tool use, rather than only retrieval wrappers or single-turn chatbots.

  • Applied expertise in fine-tuning methods such as SFT and RLHF, evaluation design, and visual reasoning; pretraining from scratch is not the focus.

  • Familiarity with technologies such as vLLM, Triton, Ray Serve, ONNX, TensorRT, Hugging Face Transformers, quantization, and edge inference.

  • Startup, founding-engineer, or other high-ownership product-building experience, and a strong interest in computer vision, wearables, and industrial AI.

  • A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, machine learning, or engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

  • Production wearable or AR AI, autonomous-driving vision, on-premise deployment, or constrained-hardware experience is valuable.

Compensation & Benefits

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

Location

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