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Thinking Machines Lab
San Francisco, California, United States
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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.
This is a product role for someone who can operate inside frontier research without trying to turn research into a conventional software roadmap. The work requires judgment, technical fluency, user empathy, discretion, and the ability to create clarity without creating bureaucracy.
The Post-Training Product Manager will work as a high-trust partner to our post-training researchers. Your role is to understand the work deeply enough to ask the right questions, identify missing connections, surface implications, and help the team decide what matters next. The role sits at the seam between research, model behavior, data and environments, evaluations, training and inference infrastructure, safety, product, and the people using our models.
Inkling was post-trained across math, agentic code and tool use, audio, image, chat, and safety, with a large-scale asynchronous RL program that exceeded 30M rollouts. Inkling and Inkling-Small share a scalable post-training stack, and Inkling is available for customization on Tinker.
The next phase requires tight loops among research priorities, model behavior, evaluations, infrastructure constraints, user and customer learning, and product direction. The person in this role will help those loops compound instead of fragment — maintaining the bird's-eye view while researchers go deep: where work is converging, where teams are solving adjacent problems without enough shared context, what evidence is missing, what decisions are blocked, and how research becomes a stronger model and a useful product.
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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