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Developer Relations Engineer

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco

CHECKED 11H AGO

Frontier labonsitesenior$300k–$350k
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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
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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
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