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Global Public Policy
7 weeks agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-time$300K – $360K a yearLegal & complianceWe're looking for a founding policy leader to build and lead Thinking Machines' global public policy function.
Product Policy
7 weeks agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$300K – $360K a yearLegal & complianceWe're looking for an experienced policy leader to build and lead Thinking Machines' product policy function.
Research, Finetuning Science
7 weeks agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$350K – $475K a yearScience & researchAt Thinking Machines we build tools that enable people to make AI their own, customizing models to serve their unique needs. This includes the ability to train model weights.
Research Lead, Tinker, Fine-tuning Science
7 weeks agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$350K – $475K a yearScience & researchAt Thinking Machines we build tools that enable people to make AI their own, customizing models to serve their unique needs. This includes the ability to train model weights.
Research Software Engineer, Post Training
8 weeks agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$350K – $475K a yearEngineeringThis role is responsible for building and strengthening the engineering foundations that our post-training research teams depend on. You'll embed within a research team, and build or improve the systems required for the team to succeed. Our research teams are small, and the…
Research Product Manager
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$350K – $400K a yearProductAs a Research Product Manager at Thinking Machines, you’ll partner closely with researchers and engineers to shape the capabilities of our frontier models and the methods that let people make those models their own. You’ll connect research direction, experimental evidence, and…
Software Engineer, Product
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-timeSenior$300K – $350K a yearEngineeringWe're hiring a Full Stack Engineer to help conceive, build, and ship new AI-powered products from the ground up. You'll work on early-stage product ideas that sit at the edge of what our models can do — moving from prototype to something real people rely on, often within weeks…
Site Reliability Engineer, Post Training
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-timeMid level$300K – $350K a yearEngineeringWe're hiring a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to keep our post-training and reinforcement learning (RL) systems fast, reliable, and easy for researchers to iterate on. Think of this as a production engineering or site reliability role built around model training: you'll own…
Site Reliability Engineer, Production
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-time$300K – $350K a yearEngineeringWe're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to drive the reliability of Tinker end-to-end. You'll work alongside the engineers building the platform and research teams to make every layer of the system more robust and resilient.
Software Engineer, Evaluation Platform / Infra
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-time$300K – $350K a yearEngineeringEvaluation is one of the most important pillars of building frontier AI systems. It guides research direction, powers experimentation, and helps us understand whether changes to data and training are improving the capabilities and behaviors we care about.
Software Engineer, Research Tools
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States +1
On-siteFull-time$300K – $350K a yearEngineeringWe are a team of full stack generalists with strong product instincts who work closely with researchers. We build systems that compound research and engineering velocity over time. We own the internal platform researchers use every day to manage and monitor training runs and…
Research, General Agents
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$400K – $500K a yearScience & researchThis role is responsible for advancing the agentic capabilities of our models, with ownership spanning the full development cycle. Our research team is small, and the role carries a corresponding degree of autonomy and responsibility.
Research, Coding Agents
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$400K – $500K a yearScience & researchThe Coding Agents team makes our models world-class at agentic coding — writing, debugging, and reasoning about code across long-horizon, multi-turn tasks.; You'll join a small, high-leverage team responsible for the recipes, data, and infrastructure behind coding capability…
Research, Post-Training Evals
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$350K – $475K a yearScience & researchWe’re looking for a researcher to help develop reliable model evaluations for research signals. This role spans evaluation creation, usability, auditing, and efficiency.
Data Partnerships
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$300K – $350K a yearData & AIWe're looking for someone to join our Data team and help researchers get the data they need to train and evaluate our models.
Research, Safety
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$350K – $475K a yearScience & researchAs a safety researcher, you'll work toward ensuring our models are safe and trustworthy. The role sits at the intersection of research and hands-on technical work. A central question is how models come to handle harmful or dual-use requests: what they learn from data, how…
Research, RL Scaling
2 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-time$350K – $475K a yearScience & researchOur team scales reinforcement learning for frontier models. Progress in RL is increasingly set by how well it scales: more rollouts, larger models, and training loops that keep large fleets of accelerators doing useful work. We are particularly interested in people working on…
Governance, Risk and Compliance Lead
3 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$225K – $350K a yearLegal & complianceWe're looking for a GRC Lead who personally drives our certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP and others as we grow) from scoping through audit close, and runs our compliance processes day to day. You'll collect the evidence, write the control documentation, and sit across…
Safety Operations Lead
3 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeLead / staff$250K – $300K a yearOperationsWe’re looking for a Safety Operations Lead who will focus on making our products safe by default while supporting fast product iteration and ambitious ideas.
HR Business Partner
3 months agoThinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, California, United States
On-siteFull-timeSenior$225K – $275K a yearPeople & HRThe new role of HR Business Partner will combine two tasks: leadership coaching, and people systems design. The two require different skillsets, but a shared vision for managing talent.
Updated 06 Nov 2026 09:37 UTC from the OptiTalent job library.