Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Training Systems
Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco
Frontier labonsite$400k–$500k
At a glance
Highlights
- Design distributed training infrastructure scaling across thousands of GPUs.
- Keep frontier training runs efficient and reliable through days-long jobs.
- Diagnose bottlenecks across compute, memory, networking and storage.
What they offer
- Generous health, dental and vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support as needed
Ideal candidate
Systems engineer who loves deep debugging across the training stack and turning insights into reliable, high-throughput infrastructure. Collaborative and curious, you partner closely with researchers to make frontier training faster.
Requirements
- Strong engineering skills writing performant, maintainable code and debugging complex systems
- Hands-on experience building, optimizing or operating distributed model-training infrastructure
- Depth in distributed training frameworks, parallelism, GPU communication, low-precision training, runtime systems or orchestration
- Understanding of deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX and the systems beneath them
- Ability to investigate problems across subsystem boundaries and carry solutions through implementation and validation
- Collaborative approach with clear communication about evidence, uncertainty and tradeoffs
- Bachelor's degree in relevant technical field or equivalent practical experience
- visa sponsorship
- We sponsor visas; committed to working through the visa process together if you're the right fit.
- hiring process
- Evergreen role with continuous review as opportunities arise; please avoid applying more than once every six months.
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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