Infrastructure Engineer Security

Artificial-intelligence research and product company building customizable AI systems, including the Tinker training API and Inkling open-weight models.

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About Thinking Machines Lab

Thinking Machines Lab develops AI products that let researchers and developers fine-tune and use models, while also releasing open-weight multimodal models.

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About the Role

You will architect security patterns for platforms and services, manage identity, access, and secrets, and build secure data platforms. You will write threat models, review designs, automate security checks, establish infrastructure baselines, and build guardrails for cloud and Kubernetes environments.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent engineering experience
  • Strong background securing containers and Kubernetes
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform
  • Understanding of cloud networking and security
  • Proficiency in Rust and Python
  • Experience owning complex production-critical systems

Responsibilities

  • Architect security patterns for platforms and services
  • Manage identity, access, and secrets for humans and services
  • Build secure platforms for data ingestion, processing, and curation
  • Write threat models and review designs
  • Automate security checks and build guardrails
  • Establish policy-as-code, secure infrastructure baselines, and CI/CD validation

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Paid parental leave
  • Relocation support