Tinkerer
Thinking Machines Lab5 hours ago
Base Salary
$300k - $400k/yr
Responsibilities
- Write, test, and maintain production-quality code examples, recipes, agentic training pipelines, and documentation for Tinker and Inkling.
- Work directly with open source developers and researchers to understand and debug technical issues, gather feedback, and optimize fine-tuning and deployment pipelines.
- Partner with research and infrastructure teams to convert community feedback into improvements to Tinker, Inkling, future models, and post-training recipes.
- Build tools, integrations, and demos that simplify experimentation, adoption, and deployment of Thinking Machines models.
- Represent Thinking Machines through blog posts, guides, tutorials, livestreams, talks, conferences, and meetups.
- Contribute to and maintain open source libraries by answering questions, reviewing contributions, and sharing technical learnings.
- Help shape Tinker’s developer experience roadmap, priorities, and product strategy.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in developer relations, developer experience, or software engineering with significant open source or community-facing work.
- Strong software engineering skills and experience writing and shipping production-quality Python code.
- Hands-on experience fine-tuning, evaluating, or deploying large language models, including supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and hyperparameter tuning.
- Ability to reason about model training, fine-tuning, and inference and discuss tradeoffs between approaches.
- Deep expertise in post-training LLMs, reinforcement learning, and agentic training is preferred.
- Experience contributing to, maintaining, or growing open source software libraries is preferred.
- Developer-experience judgment covering developer ergonomics, onboarding, and product sharp edges is preferred.
- Experience creating code examples, tutorials, cookbooks, papers, or other technical content is preferred.
- Comfort engaging publicly through talks, livestreams, research conferences, or meetups is preferred.
- Familiarity with multimodal text, image, and audio models and their training, fine-tuning, and inference tradeoffs is preferred.
Benefits
- Based in San Francisco, California.
- Expected annual salary is $300,000–$400,000 USD.
- Thinking Machines sponsors visas and is committed to working through the visa process for the right candidate, although success is not guaranteed for every candidate or role.
- Generous health, dental, and vision benefits.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Paid parental leave.
- Relocation support as needed.
Tech Stack
Categories
AI ResearchML Engineering
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.