Tinkerer
Thinking Machines Lab20 days ago
Base Salary
$300k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Write, test, and maintain code examples, recipes, and documentation for the Tinker cookbook.
- Work directly with users to debug technical issues and optimize fine-tuning pipelines.
- Partner with research and infrastructure teams to prioritize improvements to Tinker’s developer experience.
- Build tools, integrations, and demos that make model experimentation and deployment easier.
- Share technical insights through posts, guides, talks, and code examples.
- Help shape Tinker’s near-term roadmap and long-term product strategy.
Requirements
- Experience fine-tuning large language models with supervised and reinforcement learning and tuning related hyperparameters.
- Experience developing software libraries, especially open-source libraries.
- Strong understanding of developer experience, developer ergonomics, onboarding flows, and usability issues.
- Engagement with open-source communities through code contributions, technical support, or shared learnings.
- Experience writing public or internal code examples, tutorials, or papers that explain technical concepts.
- Ability to reason about model training, fine-tuning, and inference and discuss tradeoffs between approaches.
Benefits
- Generous health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Paid parental leave.
- Relocation support as needed.
- Visa sponsorship is offered, with the company committed to working through the visa process for suitable candidates.
- Based in San Francisco, California.
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About Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab develops AI and generative AI software and conducts applied research to help organizations make data-driven decisions. The company builds products and data science solutions for enterprise use cases, pairing foundational models with practical tooling and services across industries. It is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco.