Software Engineer Infrastructure
Artificial-intelligence research and product company building customizable AI systems, including the Tinker training API and Inkling open-weight models.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
Funding history
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, build, and operate distributed infrastructure for model training and inference across thousands of accelerators. You will maintain orchestration, scheduling, storage, and resource-management systems; improve reliability and observability; resolve distributed failures; and develop internal Python and Go libraries and APIs.
Requirements
- Expertise designing and developing large-scale distributed systems
- Strong proficiency in Python and Go
- Experience building, deploying, and operating production infrastructure at scale
- Knowledge of consensus, consistency, fault tolerance, and networking
- Experience with ML infrastructure, training orchestration, job schedulers, or distributed storage and data systems
- Experience operating large-scale GPU or TPU clusters
- Experience with container orchestration such as Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate distributed systems for large-scale model training and inference
- Build and maintain orchestration, scheduling, storage, and resource-management infrastructure
- Improve infrastructure reliability, performance, and observability
- Translate infrastructure needs into robust, well-abstracted systems
- Debug and resolve distributed failures across networking, storage, compute, and scheduling
- Write and maintain internal Python and Go libraries and APIs
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support as needed