Software Engineer, Evaluation Platform / Infra
Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco · New York
CHECKED 11H AGO
Frontier labonsite$300k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Design and build end-to-end platform for authoring and running model evaluations.
- Make evaluation results reproducible and trustworthy from metrics to trajectories.
- Guide frontier AI research by turning eval insights into model improvements.
What they offer
- Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support as needed
Ideal candidate
A product-minded platform builder who thrives partnering with researchers and turning messy workflows into reliable, self-serve systems that guide frontier model development.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, engineering, machine learning, or related field
- 2+ years post-grad experience as a software engineer or ML engineer, excluding internships
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining evaluations, benchmarks, graders, or model-quality systems for LLMs or multimodal models
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with experience building reliable, maintainable systems
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (primarily Python and Rust)
- Experience with databases, data pipelines, distributed systems, or other data-intensive infrastructure
- Comfort working across the stack and owning projects from discovery through deployment and operation
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners and subject-matter experts
- visa sponsorship
- We sponsor visas
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