Tinkerer
Artificial-intelligence research and product company building customizable AI systems, including the Tinker training API and Inkling open-weight models.
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 improve the developer experience for Tinker while working directly with users. You will create and maintain code examples, recipes, documentation, tools, integrations, and demos; troubleshoot fine-tuning workflows; and translate user feedback into product and infrastructure improvements. You will share practical insights through posts, guides, and talks and help shape product strategy.
Requirements
- Experience fine-tuning large language models with supervised and reinforcement learning
- Knowledge of hyperparameter tuning for fine-tuning algorithms
- Experience developing software libraries, especially open-source libraries
- Knowledge of developer experience, developer ergonomics, onboarding flows, and usability issues
- Experience engaging with open-source communities
- Experience creating code examples, tutorials, or papers
- Ability to reason about model training, fine-tuning, inference, and technical tradeoffs
Responsibilities
- Write, test, and maintain code examples, recipes, and documentation for the Tinker cookbook
- Work directly with users to debug technical issues and optimize fine-tuning pipelines
- Partner with research and infrastructure teams to prioritize developer-experience improvements
- Build tools, integrations, and demos that reduce user friction
- Share field insights through posts, guides, and talks
- Help develop the near-term roadmap and long-term product strategy
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support
- Visa sponsorship
