Software Engineer, Infrastructure at ThinkingMachines

Department: Core Engineering

Compensation · Listed in posting

$300,000 – $400,000/yr

Setup: On-site
Location: San Francisco, California
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Oct 1, 2026

Description

Thinking Machines is hiring a Software Engineer, Infrastructure to design, build, and operate distributed systems supporting large-scale model training and inference across thousands of accelerators. The role covers orchestration, scheduling, storage, resource management, reliability, performance, observability, debugging, and internal Python and Go libraries and APIs. It is based in San Francisco, California, with an expected annual salary of $300,000 to $400,000 USD, visa sponsorship, and health, dental, vision, PTO, parental leave, and relocation benefits.

Required Skills

Python
Go
Distributed systems
Kubernetes
Consensus
Fault tolerance
Networking
Observability

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Designing and developing large-scale distributed systems
Building, deploying, and operating production infrastructure at scale
Distributed systems fundamentals including consensus, consistency, fault tolerance, and networking
Preferred Qualifications: ML infrastructure experience, including training orchestration, job schedulers, or distributed storage and data systems
Operating large-scale GPU or TPU clusters
Container orchestration and infrastructure-as-code experience
Open-source infrastructure contributions
High autonomy in a fast-changing, early-stage environment
Translation Company Name: Thinking Machines Lab