Software Engineer, Inference
Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco · New York
CHECKED 11H AGO
Frontier labonsite$300k–$400k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own reliability and scale of production systems serving frontier models live.
- Power Tinker's live multi-tenant serving platform as usage rapidly grows.
- Lead safe rollouts of new models and serving optimizations to production.
What they offer
- Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support as needed
Ideal candidate
Production-minded systems engineer who thrives on ownership and stays calm in incidents. You care about keeping fast-growing AI platforms reliable and love bringing research ideas safely to real users.
Requirements
- Experience operating large-scale, latency-sensitive production systems
- Proficiency in Python and Go or another systems language
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and incident response for production services
- Strong understanding of distributed systems and how they fail at scale
- 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