Software Engineer Systems Generalist
58 minutes agoSalary: 300K - 350KSan Francisco; New YorkOnsiteFull TimeDevopsJobs by Thinking Machines Lab
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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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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will architect and scale core infrastructure for foundation-model research and products. You will solve distributed-systems problems, operate large clusters, build scalable data platforms, improve developer tooling, and work directly with researchers to accelerate experiments and improve infrastructure efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or a similar field
- Proficiency in at least one backend language
- Experience operating large-scale clusters and container orchestration systems
- Ability to work across the stack and own projects end to end
- Strong collaboration with cross-functional partners and subject matter experts
- Strong debugging across application, operating system, and network layers
- Knowledge of containers and modern continuous integration
- Experience with Kubernetes, controllers, operators, or performance profiling
- Familiarity with GPU or machine learning workflows or large-scale data and evaluation pipelines
Responsibilities
- Build and operate infrastructure for training, researching, and serving AI models
- Run large Kubernetes clusters with GPU workloads
- Design and optimize data pipelines
- Build scalable and reliable data infrastructure with governance practices
- Build tooling, systems, frameworks, and optimized developer environments
- Work with researchers to accelerate experiments and improve infrastructure efficiency
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support
