
Software Engineer, Evaluation Platform / Infra
Thinking Machines Lab2 hours ago
Base Salary
$300k - $475k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain a platform for authoring, running, tracking, and analyzing model evaluations.
- Develop evaluation libraries, distributed backend systems, data pipelines, APIs, and user-facing applications end to end.
- Build abstractions for evaluation tasks, environments, graders, datasets, and model outputs.
- Improve reproducibility and trust through versioning, provenance, observability, failure recovery, and quality controls.
- Partner with researchers to convert bespoke workflows and bottlenecks into self-serve systems used across teams.
- Collaborate with the Research Tooling team and other pre-training, post-training, and applied teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, engineering, machine learning, or a related field.
- At least two years of post-graduate software engineering or ML engineering experience, excluding internships.
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining evaluations, benchmarks, graders, or model-quality systems for large language or multimodal models.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience building reliable, maintainable systems.
- Proficiency in at least one backend programming language, with Python and Rust used primarily.
- Experience with databases, data pipelines, distributed systems, or other data-intensive infrastructure.
- Ability to work across the stack and own projects from problem discovery through deployment and operation.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional partners and subject-matter experts.
- Preferred experience includes building frameworks, SDKs, developer tools, distributed job execution, workflow orchestration, sandboxed environments, large-scale data processing, polished data-inspection interfaces, model evaluation, research collaboration, or end-to-end work on small teams.
Benefits
- Annual salary range of $300,000–$475,000 USD.
- Health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Paid parental leave.
- Relocation support as needed.
- Visa sponsorship is available.
- The role is based in San Francisco, California.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering