Research, Coding Agents
Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco
Frontier labonsite$400k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own full coding post-training stack from data to large-scale RL runs.
- Build sandboxed coding environments and reward signals for training.
- Design evals measuring real-world coding usefulness for everyday use.
What they offer
- health, dental, and vision benefits
- unlimited PTO
- paid parental leave
- relocation support as needed
Ideal candidate
A research-driven engineer who thrives owning open-ended problems and turning real coding pain points into model gains. You care about rigorous experimentation and shipping frontier capabilities.
Requirements
- Strong engineering skills, ability to contribute code and debug in complex codebases
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with at least one deep learning framework
- Comfortable with debugging distributed training and writing code that scales
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or related discipline
- Clarity in communication, ability to explain complex technical concepts in writing
- Experience building synthetic data pipelines and systems adopted by others
- Experience owning end-to-end cycle of identifying model usability gaps and closing them
- Experience making large-scale agentic RL infrastructure reliable at scale
- Experience improving coding capabilities of a frontier model
- PhD or equivalent industry research experience in relevant discipline
- 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
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