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Thinking Machines Lab

37 recorded postings · Partial update · October 8, 2026

Recorded postings, not a live vacancy count. Partial update: some sources retain earlier observations; each listing has its own check date.

Thinking Machines Lab is in the directory as one of the frontier model labs.

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What its 37 postings mention most
  1. Python 78%
  2. JAX 62%
  3. Distributed training 59%
  4. PyTorch 54%
  5. How language models work 43%
  6. Post-training and fine-tuning 43%
  7. Inference and serving 43%
  8. Evals and benchmarks 41%

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Recorded technical roles

Research scientists and engineers: 19 · ML systems and infrastructure: 5 · Software engineering at labs: 13

  1. Software Engineer, Inference ↗

    ML systems and infrastructure · No degree stated · $300k to $400k base

  2. Software Engineer, Infrastructure ↗

    Software engineering at labs · No degree stated · $300k to $400k base

  3. Developer Experience Engineer ↗

    Software engineering at labs · No degree stated · $300k to $350k base

  4. Developer Relations Engineer ↗

    Software engineering at labs · No degree stated · $300k to $350k base

  5. Endpoint Engineer, IT ↗

    Software engineering at labs · No degree stated · $260k to $360k base

  6. Engineering Manager ↗

    Software engineering at labs · Bachelor's or equivalent · $450k to $500k base

  7. Infrastructure Engineer, Security ↗

    Software engineering at labs · Bachelor's or equivalent · $300k to $400k base

  8. Network Engineer, Supercomputing ↗

    ML systems and infrastructure · Bachelor's or equivalent · $350k to $475k base

  9. Reliability Engineer, Supercomputing ↗

    ML systems and infrastructure · Bachelor's or equivalent · $350k to $475k base

  10. Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Inference ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · Bachelor's or equivalent · $350k to $475k base

  11. Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Kernels ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · Bachelor's or equivalent · $350k to $475k base

  12. Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Numerics ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · Bachelor's or equivalent · $350k to $475k base

  13. Research Engineer, Infrastructure, Training Systems ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · Bachelor's or equivalent · $350k to $475k base

  14. Research Engineer, Web Crawling ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $475k base

  15. Research Lead, Tinker, Fine-tuning Science ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $350k to $475k base

  16. Research Software Engineer, Post Training ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $475k base

  17. Research, Coding Agents ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $350k to $475k base

  18. Research, Audio Expertise ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $350k to $475k base

  19. Research, Finetuning Science ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $350k to $475k base

  20. Research, General Agents ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $350k to $475k base

  21. Research, Mid Training ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · No degree stated · $350k to $475k base

  22. Research, Post-Training ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $350k to $475k base

  23. Research, Post-Training Evals ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $350k to $475k base

  24. Research, Pre-Training Data ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $350k to $475k base

  25. Research, RL Scaling ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $350k to $475k base

  26. Research, Safety ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $350k to $475k base

  27. Research, Tinker, RL Systems ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $350k to $475k base

  28. Research, Vision Expertise ↗

    Research scientists and engineers · PhD or equivalent experience · $350k to $475k base

  29. Site Reliability Engineer, Post Training ↗

    Software engineering at labs · No degree stated · $300k to $350k base

  30. Site Reliability Engineer, Production ↗

    Software engineering at labs · Bachelor's or equivalent · $300k to $350k base

  31. Software Engineer, Evaluation Platform / Infra ↗

    Software engineering at labs · Bachelor's or equivalent · $300k to $350k base

  32. Software Engineer, Product ↗

    Software engineering at labs · No degree stated · $300k to $350k base

  33. Software Engineer, Research Tools ↗

    ML systems and infrastructure · Bachelor's or equivalent · $300k to $350k base

  34. Software Engineer, Sandboxing ↗

    Software engineering at labs · Bachelor's or equivalent · $300k to $400k base

  35. Software Engineer, Security ↗

    Software engineering at labs · Bachelor's or equivalent · $300k to $350k base

  36. Software Engineer, Supercomputing ↗

    ML systems and infrastructure · Bachelor's or equivalent · $350k to $475k base

  37. Software Engineer, Systems Generalist ↗

    Software engineering at labs · Bachelor's or equivalent · $300k to $400k base