Founding ML Researcher

About the Role

Join an early-stage industrial AI team building agentic vision-language systems for smart glasses used in field work. You will help develop and ship the multimodal AI core, from production model pipelines to real-time experiences on wearable hardware.
What Youll Do

Build and ship agentic vision-language pipelines that support multi-step visual reasoning and tool use in industrial workflows.

Develop evaluation frameworks, capture failure modes, and create data and fine-tuning loops to improve model quality.

Optimize model orchestration and edge inference for variable connectivity, latency, and 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 Were Looking For

0 to 3 years of experience shipping production vision-language or multimodal AI systems, with hands-on Python and PyTorch experience.

Experience owning model and orchestration layers, building multi-step tool-using agents, and designing evaluation harnesses and data improvement loops.

Applied computer vision and vision-language model experience, including fine-tuning and deployment; this role is focused on applied systems rather than pretraining from scratch.

Familiarity with tools such as vLLM, Triton, Ray Serve, ONNX, TensorRT, Hugging Face Transformers, and model quantization.

Startup or high-ownership engineering experience, and a degree in computer science, machine learning, or engineering, or equivalent production experience.

Interest or experience in wearable AI, augmented reality, industrial systems, autonomous driving, or edge and on-premise inference.

Compensation & Benefits

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

On-site in San Francisco, California.