Network Engineer, Supercomputing at ThinkingMachines

Department: Core Engineering

Compensation

$350,000 – $475,000/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco, California
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Jun 24, 2026

Description

Thinking Machines is hiring a Network Engineer to own the lowest layers of its large-scale GPU network stack, including RDMA/RoCEv2 interconnects, NVLink/NVSwitch domains, production collectives, and NIC-level debugging. The role involves building host-level instrumentation and Linux dashboards, troubleshooting cross-cloud fabric issues, and driving escalations with cloud-provider networking teams. It is based in San Francisco, California, with an expected annual salary of $350,000–$475,000 USD and visa sponsorship.

Required Skills

RDMA/RoCEv2
NVLink/NVSwitch
Python/Rust
Kubernetes/Slurm
Linux tooling
NCCL
CUDA

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or a similar field
Required Previous Experiences: Experience operating large-scale clusters and container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes or Slurm
Preferred Qualifications: Fluency with host-level debugging tools on Linux
Strong communication skills with internal teams and cloud providers
Familiarity with cloud network primitives across at least two cloud providers
Hands-on experience with NVLink/NVSwitch, fabric manager, and IMEX
Statistical rigor in reliability reasoning and failure analysis
Experience writing debugging tooling
Familiarity with CUDA/NCCL and distributed training/inference profiling
Understanding of deep learning frameworks and system architectures