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Thinking Machines Lab · 4 hours ago

Software Engineer, Developer Productivity, AI Tools

San Francisco

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$350K/yr - $475K/yr

Thinking Machines Lab's mission is to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. They are seeking a developer productivity engineer to enhance software development through AI tools and coding agents, focusing on building state-of-the-art tooling for AI-assisted development and improving workflows for engineers.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIInformation TechnologyProduct ResearchSoftware

H1B Sponsored

Responsibilities

Enable our researchers and engineers to leverage AI to improve coding productivity without compromising code quality

Standardize AI coding tools, such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex. You will help configure, harden, and maintain the best tools, integrating org-wide configurations with individual preferences

Build secure, reproducible agent sandboxes for remote dev & CI testing

Set up golden-path dev environments and guardrails for secrets/PII

Help individual contributors develop their personalized AI-enabled workflow

Track tool usage, reliability, and cost

Qualification

AI coding toolsContainer platformsProductivity toolsSystems programmingScripting languagesLinux fundamentalsCommunication skills

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience in computer science, engineering, or similar

Experience developing productivity tools and best practices for large codebases

Ability to communicate clearly and work with researchers to build and manage a variety of internal tools

Preferred

Hands-on experience with container platforms (e.g. Docker/Kubernetes), modern CI (GitHub Actions/Buildkite), and package management tools (uv)

Practical experience with AI coding tools and model APIs (e.g. OSS via vLLM / SGLang / TGI)

Solid Linux/networking fundamentals; comfort with secrets management and safe egress

Proficiency in systems programming languages (e.g. Rust) and scripting languages (e.g. Python)

Benefits

Generous health, dental, and vision benefits

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Relocation support as needed

Company

Thinking Machines Lab

Thinking Machines Lab is an AI research and product company that aims to increase understanding and customization of AI systems.

Founded in 2025

San Francisco, California, USA

11-50 employees

https://www.thinkingmachines.ai

H1B Sponsorship

Thinking Machines Lab has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)

Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (9)

Funding

Current Stage

Early Stage

Total Funding

$2.01B

Key Investors

Andreessen Horowitz"Ministry of Economy, Culture and Innovation"

2025-06-20Seed· $2B

2025-05-05Grant· $9.95M

Leadership Team

Mira Murati

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Jonathan Lachman

Founding Head of Operations

Recent News

Business Insider

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab quietly hired a legendary coder amid top leaders leaving

2026-02-04

Latest Technology News | New York Post

Co-founder of $12B AI startup fired after boss learns about office romance: report

2026-01-22

Techmeme

Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)

2026-01-22

Company data provided by crunchbase