Developer Experience Engineer
Thinking Machines Lab17 hours ago
Base Salary
$300k - $350k/yr
Responsibilities
- Write, test, and maintain Tinker cookbook code examples, recipes, and documentation.
- Work directly with users to debug technical issues and optimize fine-tuning pipelines.
- Partner with research and infrastructure teams to identify and prioritize Tinker developer experience improvements.
- Build tools, integrations, and demos that reduce user friction when experimenting with and deploying models.
- Share user 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 algorithm hyperparameters.
- Experience developing software libraries, particularly open-source libraries.
- Strong understanding of developer experience, developer ergonomics, onboarding flows, and usability issues.
- Passion for engaging with open-source communities through code contributions, answering questions, or sharing 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 qualified candidates.
- Role is 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.