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Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco

Frontier labonsite$400k–$500k
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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
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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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