Thinking Machines Lab
Developer Relations Engineer
$300K–$350K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; qualifying experience may be in developer relations, developer experience, or software engineering with significant open-source or community-facing work.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is offered; success is not guaranteed for every candidate or role.
About the job
Build developer resources, integrations, and demos for Inkling and Tinker, support open-source users, and turn their feedback into product and developer-experience improvements.
What you'll do
- Write and maintain code examples, documentation, and training recipes; build demos, integrations, and tools.
- Help developers and researchers debug issues, gather feedback, and use the models and platform.
- Represent the company through technical content and public events, and partner with research and infrastructure teams on product improvements.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in developer relations, developer experience, or software engineering with significant open-source or community-facing work.
- Strong software engineering skills and experience shipping production-quality Python code.
- Hands-on experience fine-tuning, evaluating, or deploying large language models.
Nice to have
- Experience with supervised and reinforcement learning fine-tuning, post-training, or improving model capability.
- Open-source library contributions, technical content, public speaking, or familiarity with multimodal models.
Pay
$300,000 - $350,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
Python, Inkling, Tinker
AI focus
Work with Inkling and other models, including hands-on fine-tuning, evaluation, or deployment; develop training recipes and integrations, and help improve models and post-training.
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