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Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Inference

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco

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Frontier labonsite$350k–$475k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Scale systems powering frontier AI models for real-world applications.
  • Make inference faster, cheaper, and more reliable at massive scale.
  • Bring cutting-edge AI models from research into production.

What they offer

  • Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Paid parental leave
  • Relocation support as needed

Ideal candidate

Collaborative, action-biased engineer excited by large-scale AI infrastructure who thrives partnering with researchers to turn novel models into fast, reliable production systems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar
  • Understanding of deep learning frameworks and underlying system architectures
  • Experience with inference serving systems optimized for throughput and latency
  • Thrive in highly collaborative environment with cross-functional partners
  • Bias for action with initiative to work across stacks and teams to ship
  • Strong engineering skills with performant, maintainable code and debugging in complex codebases
  • Experience training or supporting large-scale language models with hundreds of billions of parameters or more
  • Understanding of distributed compute systems, GPU parallelism, and hardware-aware optimizations
  • Contributions to open-source ML or systems infrastructure projects
  • Track record of improving research productivity through infrastructure design
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hiring process
Evergreen role reviewed continuously with outreach 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
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