Developer Relations Engineer at ThinkingMachines

Department: Core Engineering

Compensation · Listed in posting

$300,000 – $350,000/yr

Setup: On-site
Location: San Francisco, California
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Sep 29, 2026

Description

Thinking Machines is hiring a Developer Relations Engineer to support its Inkling and Tinker AI products. The role combines software engineering, open-source community engagement, developer experience, technical writing, demos, integrations, and feedback-driven product improvement. Candidates need at least five years of experience in developer relations, developer experience, or software engineering with significant open-source or community-facing work, strong Python skills, and hands-on experience fine-tuning, evaluating, or deploying large language models. The position is based in San Francisco, California, with an expected annual salary of $300,000 to $350,000 USD, visa sponsorship, and health, dental, and vision benefits.

Required Skills

Python
LLM fine-tuning
Open source
Technical writing
Developer integrations

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years of experience in developer relations, developer experience, or software engineering with significant open-source or community-facing work
Experience writing and shipping production-quality Python code
Hands-on experience fine-tuning, evaluating, or deploying large language models
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with supervised and reinforcement learning fine-tuning of LLMs, post-training, and improving model capability
Track record contributing to, maintaining, or growing open-source software libraries
Experience writing public or internal tutorials, cookbooks, or technical content
Comfort engaging publicly through talks, livestreams, or conference and meetup appearances
Familiarity with multimodal models and the tradeoffs involved in training, fine-tuning, and inference
Translation Company Name: Thinking Machines Lab