Software Engineer, Product
Thinking Machines Lab1 month ago
Base Salary
$300k - $475k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship full-stack features across web applications, including backend services, APIs, and frontend interfaces.
- Prototype with emerging model capabilities and turn research results into usable product experiences.
- Take product ideas from rough concepts to live products and iterate based on user feedback.
- Partner with researchers to understand model behavior, constraints, and capabilities.
- Collaborate with product and design partners to define product direction and priorities.
- Own technical architecture decisions covering scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
- Help establish engineering practices and technical standards for the product engineering team.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional software engineering experience with ownership across frontend and backend systems.
- Demonstrated success shipping production web applications end to end, from data model and API design through polished user interfaces.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous and fast-changing environments.
- Experience making pragmatic technical tradeoffs while managing technical risk.
- Preferred: experience building products on large language models or other frontier AI systems.
- Preferred: strong product sense and interest in determining what to build.
- Preferred: experience as an early or founding startup engineer or leading a product from 0 to 1.
- Preferred: familiarity with modern frontend frameworks and interface design and usability.
- Preferred: experience with distributed systems, infrastructure, or backend performance at scale.
- Preferred: experience collaborating with researchers, designers, and other non-engineering partners.
Benefits
- Based in San Francisco, California.
- Visa sponsorship is available, with support through the visa process for qualified candidates.
- Generous health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Paid parental leave.
- Relocation support as needed.
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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.