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Software Engineer, Evaluation Platform / Infra

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco · New York

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Frontier labonsite$300k–$350k
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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
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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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