Founding ML Researcher
True Talent Solutions Partners · San Francisco · onsite
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join an early-stage industrial AI team building the multimodal AI core for smart glasses used by field technicians. You will develop and ship production vision-language systems that provide real-time assistance across industrial workflows.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Build and ship agentic vision-language pipelines for visual reasoning across industrial procedures and inspections.
- Develop evaluation tools, capture failure cases, and create data and fine-tuning workflows that improve model quality.
- Adapt model orchestration and edge inference for changing connectivity and latency constraints.
- Create real-time voice and video interfaces, including conversational and proactive alert experiences.
- Fine-tune and optimize multimodal models for enterprise and on-premise deployment.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
- Experience range: 0 to 3 years building and shipping production VLM or multimodal AI systems.
- Strong Python and PyTorch skills, with experience in computer vision and vision-language models.
- Hands-on experience with multi-step agents that use tools, model orchestration, evaluation design, and data feedback loops.
- Applied fine-tuning experience, such as SFT or RLHF, and model deployment or optimization, rather than a focus solely on training models from scratch.
- Experience with technologies such as vLLM, Triton, Ray Serve, ONNX, TensorRT, Hugging Face Transformers, quantization, and edge inference.
- Production experience in a startup or fast-paced engineering environment, with a track record of shipping systems to users.
- Background in wearables, augmented reality, autonomous driving, or industrial AI is valuable. A relevant degree or equivalent demonstrated experience is expected.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
Base salary: $180,000 to $230,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
LOCATION
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.