Thinking Machines Lab
Research, Post-Training Evals
$350K–$475K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 27, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline with strong theoretical and empirical grounding.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available; success is not guaranteed for every candidate or role.
About the job
Develops reliable model evaluations and research signals to assess capabilities, usability, and nuanced behaviors, and improve post-training.
What you'll do
- Create evaluations and research signals for model capabilities and behaviors; assess usefulness in research and product workflows.
- Improve evaluation robustness and develop benchmark auditing methodologies.
- Build agentic evaluation environments and user simulators, and evaluate preferences, personalization, biases, and values.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a listed or related discipline, with strong theoretical and empirical grounding.
- Experience designing, building, or analyzing evaluations, benchmarks, datasets, graders, or other measurement systems.
- Strong written and verbal communication and ability to collaborate across research and engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with LLMs, post-training, reinforcement learning, agentic systems, evaluation auditing, human evaluations, LLM-judges, or open-ended task evaluation.
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with a deep learning framework; experience with evaluation methods, research signals, or nuanced model behaviors.
Pay
$350,000 - $475,000 USD annual salary (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX
AI focus
Develops and audits evaluations for model capabilities, behaviors, usability, and post-training; includes specialized agentic evaluation environments and user simulators.
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