Developer Relations Engineer
Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco
CHECKED 11H AGO
Frontier labonsitesenior$300k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Help open source community build with Inkling models and Tinker fine-tuning platform.
- Ship ML recipes, demos, and integrations for frontier open-weights models.
- Turn developer feedback into improvements for models and training tools.
What they offer
- Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support as needed
Ideal candidate
A builder-teacher who loves coding and engaging open source communities. You enjoy debugging with users, creating demos and tutorials, and shaping frontier model tools.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in developer relations, developer experience, or a software engineering role with significant open source or community-facing work
- Strong software engineering skills, with experience writing and shipping production-quality Python code
- Hands-on experience fine-tuning, evaluating, or deploying large language models
- Experience with supervised and reinforcement learning fine-tuning of LLMs, post-training on new domains, and improving model capability
- Track record contributing to, maintaining, or growing open source software libraries
- Experience writing public or internal tutorials, cookbooks, or technical content that helped others understand and apply technical concepts
- Comfortable engaging publicly through talks, livestreams, or conference and meetup appearances
- Familiarity with multimodal models (text, image, audio) and the tradeoffs involved in training, fine-tuning, and inference
- visa sponsorship
- We sponsor visas
Lab profile
About Thinking Machines Lab
Builds frontier AI that extends human will and judgment through customizable models and interfaces.
What they build
- Inkling frontier models
- Tinker model customization
- Human-AI communication interfaces
Known for
- Frontier model training
- Post-training and reinforcement learning
- Evaluation infrastructure
- GPU supercomputing and reliability