Reliability Engineer, Supercomputing
Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco
CHECKED 13H AGO
Frontier labonsite$350k–$475k
At a glance
Highlights
- You will own reliability of GPU supercomputing fleet for frontier research.
- Diagnose hardware faults to root cause and drive fixes with vendors directly.
- Automate fleet health monitoring and validate fixes measurably cut failures.
What they offer
- Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support as needed
Ideal candidate
A hands-on systems thinker who lives at the hardware-software seam and takes end-to-end ownership. You are collaborative, action-biased, and obsessed with root-causing elusive failures so researchers can run at scale with confidence.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (Python or Rust)
- Experience operating large-scale clusters and container orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes or Slurm)
- Comfort operating across the stack and owning projects end-to-end
- Thrive in highly collaborative environment with cross-functional partners
- Bias for action with initiative to work across stacks and teams
- visa sponsorship
- We sponsor visas
- hiring process
- Evergreen role reviewed on an ongoing basis as new opportunities open
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