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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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Candidate Availability

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About the Role

You will advance agentic model capabilities across the full development cycle. You will build synthetic-data frameworks and task environments, address capability gaps through data and recipe work with controlled ablations, and turn internal and external feedback into end-to-end model usability improvements.

Requirements

  • Strong engineering skills and ability to contribute code and debug complex codebases
  • Ability to design, run, and interpret experiments with scientific rigor
  • Proficiency in Python
  • Familiarity with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
  • Ability to debug distributed training and write scalable code
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline
  • Ability to explain complex technical concepts in writing

Responsibilities

  • Build a synthetic-data framework and task environments for agentic capabilities
  • Address capability gaps through data and recipe work
  • Validate proposed changes through controlled ablations
  • Translate internal and external feedback into end-to-end model improvements

Benefits

  • Health benefits
  • Dental benefits
  • Vision benefits
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Paid parental leave
  • Relocation support