Software Engineer, AI Products
Thinking Machines Lab4 hours ago
Base Salary
$300k - $475k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and ship full-stack web application features spanning backend services, APIs, and frontend interfaces.
- Prototype with emerging model capabilities and translate research results into product experiences.
- Take product ideas from rough concepts to live user-facing products and iterate based on feedback.
- Partner with researchers to understand model capabilities and constraints and incorporate them into product decisions.
- Collaborate with product and design partners to define product direction.
- Own technical architecture, including scalability, reliability, and maintainability decisions.
- Help establish engineering practices and technical standards for the product engineering team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with ownership across frontend and backend systems.
- Demonstrated ability to ship production web applications end to end, from data model and API design through user-facing interfaces.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous and fast-changing environments and make pragmatic technical tradeoffs.
- Preferred experience building products on large language models or other frontier AI systems.
- Preferred strong product sense and experience determining what to build.
- Preferred experience as an early or founding 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
- Generous 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.
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