Site Reliability Engineer, Post Training
Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco · New York
CHECKED 13H AGO
Frontier labonsite$300k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own reliability of large-scale post-training and RL training jobs end-to-end.
- Embed with researchers to debug live runs and speed up iteration.
- Build self-healing monitoring and tooling for model training clusters.
What they offer
- Health, dental, and vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support as needed
Ideal candidate
A production-minded engineer who thrives on-call and loves debugging complex distributed failures side-by-side with researchers to keep frontier training runs moving fast.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a production engineer, site reliability engineer, or infrastructure engineer operating large-scale distributed systems in production
- Track record debugging complex failures across distributed systems — networking, hardware, kernel, or scheduler issues
- Strong software engineering skills in Python and/or Go/C++, with the judgment to know when to script a fix versus build a system
- Solid grounding in Linux systems internals and networking fundamentals
- Comfortable owning production systems, including participating in on-call rotations
- Experience operating GPU or TPU training clusters at scale
- Familiarity with post-training and RL techniques (e.g., RLHF, PPO, DPO) and infrastructure challenges specific to them
- Experience with distributed training frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, Ray) and job schedulers (e.g., Slurm, Kubernetes)
- Experience with high-performance networking (e.g., InfiniBand, RDMA, NCCL) and its role in distributed training performance
- Experience building observability tooling purpose-built for ML training
- Track record of thriving in fast-changing, research-driven environments
- visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship available
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