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Thinking Machines Lab
San Francisco, California, United States
Source: Thinking Machines Lab careers · View original posting
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The mission of Thinking Machines is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. We are training frontier models with Inkling, developing Tinker to let people make models their own, and crafting interfaces that broaden human-AI communication. We believe the future worth building is human, and we're hiring people who want to build it.
As Product Manager for Deployment, you will own how Thinking Machines' models and fine-tuned checkpoints go from training into production use. You will shape the path from a trained model to a served, reliable, cost-effective endpoint — covering inference infrastructure, serving APIs, latency and throughput tradeoffs, scaling behavior, observability, and the workflows researchers and external users rely on to deploy their work with confidence.
This is not a mature MLOps role at an established platform. Deployment at Thinking Machines is still being defined: what "production-ready" means for a fine-tuned model, which serving paths we support, how much control users get over performance and cost tradeoffs, and how we scale reliably as usage grows. You will work from infrastructure capability through to a deployment experience that is fast, predictable, and trustworthy.
The strongest candidate has shipped and operated production ML or infrastructure systems before, ideally as an engineer before becoming a product leader, and can reason from strategy down to autoscaling behavior, latency budgets, rollout safety, and the on-call realities of running models in production.
Location: This role is based in San Francisco, CA.
Compensation: Depending on background, skills and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is $350,000 - $400,000 USD.
Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas. While we can't guarantee success for every candidate or role, if you're the right fit, we're committed to working through the visa process together.
Benefits: Thinking Machines offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, and relocation support as needed.
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