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Site Reliability Engineer, Post Training

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco · New York

CHECKED 13H AGO

Frontier labonsite$300k–$350k
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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
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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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