Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Inference
Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco
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Frontier labonsite$350k–$475k
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
- visa sponsorship
- We sponsor visas.
- 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