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https://thinkingmachines.aiOpen positions (19)
Endpoint Engineer, IT
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking an Endpoint Engineer to join their IT team. This role will focus on building secure infrastructure and efficient processes for an all-Mac environment, managing the endpoint fleet as a distributed platform with production-engineering practices. The team utilizes version-controlled workflows for endpoint configurations, security policies, scripts, and software deployments, incorporating testing, review, staged rollouts, and rollback capabilities. The Endpoint Engineer will collaborate closely with IT, Security, and Identity teams to ensure a secure and reliable employee computing experience.
$200k - $325k
Safety Operations Lead
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking an Operations Analyst to focus on ensuring product safety while supporting rapid product iteration. This role involves close collaboration with product engineers, security, researchers, and designers to integrate safety and integrity into the entire product lifecycle. Daily tasks will include managing the moderation queue and developing tools and policies to enhance the speed and accuracy of future moderation efforts.
$190k - $300k
Software Engineer, Full Stack
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking a full stack engineer to build and ship products from prototype to scale, and to maintain tools that accelerate research and product teams. This role involves working across frontend and backend components, and contributing to the reliability, observability, and security of production systems. The company's mission is to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence, building a future where everyone has access to AI tools for their unique needs.
$350k - $475k
Software Engineer, Full Stack, Tinker
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking a full-stack engineer to develop and deploy the products and services that Tinker users engage with daily. This role involves working across frontend, backend, and infrastructure to build the Tinker console, developer tools, and other essential components for the platform. Tinker is a fine-tuning API that enables researchers and developers to customize frontier AI models using their own data and algorithms, managing the underlying infrastructure to provide flexibility and access to advanced capabilities.
$350k - $475k
Software Engineer, Developer Productivity, AI Tools
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking a developer productivity engineer to enhance internal software development processes, focusing on safety, speed, and user experience. This role will concentrate on AI tools and coding agents, collaborating with platform, security, and product engineers to build cutting-edge tooling for AI-assisted software development and significantly accelerate the inner development loop. The position involves both establishing company-wide platforms and assisting individual developers in optimizing their workflows.
$350k - $475k
Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking an engineer to join a high-impact team focused on data infrastructure. This role is crucial for architecting and scaling the core systems that power distributed training pipelines, multimodal data catalogs, and intelligent processing of petabytes of data. You will work directly with researchers to accelerate experiments, develop new datasets, enhance infrastructure efficiency, and derive key insights from our data assets. If you are passionate about distributed systems, large-scale data mining, and building foundational tools from the ground up, we encourage you to apply.
$350k - $475k
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the end-to-end reliability of their Tinker platform. This role involves working closely with engineers and research teams to enhance the robustness and resilience of every system layer. The SRE will be instrumental in maintaining and improving the infrastructure that supports custom AI model fine-tuning, ensuring a seamless experience for researchers and developers.
$350k - $475k
Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Inference
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking an infrastructure research engineer to design, optimize, and scale the systems that power large AI models. The goal is to make inference faster, more cost-effective, more reliable, and more reproducible, enabling research teams to focus on advancing model capabilities. This role is crucial for ensuring that every experiment, evaluation, and deployment runs smoothly at scale, with a focus on performant and efficient model inference for both real-world applications and research acceleration.
$350k - $475k
Research Engineer, Developer Experience, Tinker
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking a Research Engineer focused on developer experience to build and enhance their Tinker platform. This role involves working hands-on with users to understand their challenges and translate them into product improvements. You will be responsible for creating and updating documentation, adding library features, prototyping integrations, and ensuring users can smoothly customize frontier AI models. This position acts as a crucial link between Tinker users and the internal research and infrastructure teams, surfacing user patterns to inform product and infrastructure priorities and sharing learnings through various channels.
$350k - $475k
Software Engineer, Platform, Tinker
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking a Software Engineer to own the platform systems that power Tinker, their fine-tuning API. This role involves developing and maintaining critical components such as billing and usage metering, permissions and access control, organization and team management, data export functionalities, and audit logging. You will collaborate closely with product, legal, and other cross-functional teams, ensuring that new features, pricing adjustments, and enterprise deals are seamlessly integrated into the platform. This is an opportunity to grow a rapidly expanding platform and contribute to the Tinker community.
$350k - $475k
Software Engineer, Research Acceleration
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking engineers to build the libraries and tools that accelerate research. You will own internal infrastructure, including evaluation libraries, RL training libraries, and experiment tracking platforms, and build systems that compound research velocity over time. This is a collaborative role where you will work directly with researchers to identify bottlenecks and pain points. Success means researchers trust your systems to just work and find them a delight to use.
$350k - $475k
Research Infrastructure Engineer, Research Acceleration
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking engineers to build the libraries and tools that accelerate research. You will own internal infrastructure, including evaluation libraries, RL training libraries, and experiment tracking platforms, to build systems that compound research velocity over time. This is a collaborative role where you will work directly with researchers to identify bottlenecks and pain points. Success means researchers trust your systems to just work and find them a delight to use.
$350k - $475k
Research, Pre-Training Data
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking pre-training researchers to join their mission of advancing collaborative general intelligence. This role is central to developing the next generation of AI models by blending research with large-scale data engineering. You will be responsible for assembling pre-training datasets and data systems, designing and implementing methods for sourcing, curating, and analyzing data for quality and performance. The position involves working with automated pipelines and human-in-the-loop processes, contributing both scientific insights and production-grade code. It's an ideal opportunity for individuals passionate about the intersection of data, machine learning, and systems, and who are eager to shape the future of AI.
$350k - $475k
Research, Post-Training Data
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking researchers to bridge the gap between raw AI intelligence and useful, safe, and collaborative systems. This role focuses on post-training data research, combining human insight and machine learning techniques to capture and steer model behavior based on human preferences. You will be responsible for translating research ideas into actionable data through labeling and collection campaigns, understanding data quality science, and developing metrics to measure the impact of data and training interventions. The position also involves exploring new paradigms for human-AI interaction and scalable oversight, blending research, data operations, and technical implementation to advance human-centered AI systems. This role requires both fundamental research and practical engineering, making it ideal for individuals who enjoy deep theoretical exploration and hands-on experimentation.
$350k - $475k
Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Numerics
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking an infrastructure research engineer to design and build core systems for efficient large-scale model training, with a specific focus on numerics. This role involves enhancing the numerical foundations of their distributed training stack, optimizing precision formats, kernel optimizations, and communication frameworks to ensure stable, scalable, and fast training of trillion-parameter models. The ideal candidate will bridge research and systems engineering, possessing a strong understanding of both optimization mathematics and distributed compute realities.
$350k - $475k
Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Kernels
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking an infrastructure research engineer to design, optimize, and maintain the compute foundations for large-scale language model training. This role involves developing high-performance ML kernels, enabling efficient low-precision arithmetic, and improving the distributed compute stack. You will work closely with researchers and systems architects, bridging algorithmic design with hardware efficiency, prototyping new kernel implementations, and defining numerical and parallelism strategies for scaling AI systems.
$350k - $475k
Infrastructure Engineer, Security
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking an infrastructure engineer to lead and enhance the security infrastructure for their foundation models. This role involves working across compute, storage, networking, and data platforms to ensure systems are secure, reliable, and scalable. The engineer will define security controls, architecture, and tooling, integrating security by default into the platform. Collaboration with research and product teams will be key to enabling rapid progress while maintaining robust protection for models, data, and environments.
$200k - $475k
Software Engineer, Security
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking a Software Engineer focused on security to ensure their AI products are secure by default while enabling rapid product iteration. This role involves embedding with product and research teams to integrate security into the design and development process, as well as building tools and automation to maintain system safety at scale. The company is dedicated to advancing collaborative general intelligence and empowering users with AI tools tailored to their needs.
$350k - $475k
Software Engineer, Systems Generalist
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Thinking Machines Lab is seeking generalist infrastructure and systems engineers to build the core systems powering their foundation models and support internal research and product development teams. This high-impact role involves architecting and scaling critical infrastructure across the full technical stack, solving complex distributed systems problems, and building robust, scalable platforms. You will work directly with researchers to accelerate experiments, improve infrastructure efficiency, and enable key insights across models, products, and data assets.
$350k - $475k