Thinking Machines Lab
Software Engineer, Product
$300K–$350K
San Francisco +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 31, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
New York - Experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available; success is not guaranteed.
About the job
Build and ship AI-powered products, translating emerging model capabilities into user-facing experiences from prototype through production.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and ship full-stack web features, including backend services, APIs, and frontend interfaces.
- Prototype with emerging model capabilities and develop product ideas into live experiences, iterating with user feedback.
- Partner with researchers, product, and design; own technical architecture and help establish engineering practices.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with ownership across frontend and backend systems.
- Track record shipping production web applications end to end, from data model and API design through user-facing interfaces.
- Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-changing environments where product direction is still being discovered.
- Experience making pragmatic technical tradeoffs to move quickly without unmanageable risk.
Nice to have
- Experience building products on large language models or other frontier AI systems.
- Experience as an early or founding startup engineer, or leading a product from 0 to 1.
Pay
$300,000 - $350,000 USD annual salary range; base salary
Tools
large language models
AI focus
Prototype with emerging model capabilities and turn research results into usable AI-powered product experiences.
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