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Thinking Machines Lab Posted 30+ days ago
Site Reliability Engineer, Post Training
Location
San Francisco
On-site
Contract
Permanent
Full-time
Salary
$300–350k
Gross per year
Experience
4+ years
Mid-level level
Job summary
Responsibilities
We're hiring a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to keep our post-training and reinforcement learning (RL) systems fast, reliable, and easy for researchers to iterate on. Think of this as a production engineering or site reliability role built around model training: you'll own the health of the…
- Own the reliability, performance, and uptime of large-scale post-training and RL training jobs, from launch through completion
- Partner directly with research teams during active model runs, embedding with them to unblock training and speed up iteration
- Debug failures across the full stack — accelerators, networking, storage, schedulers, and training frameworks — and drive issues to root cause
- Build monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery so runs self-heal or fail fast instead of silently stalling
- Improve checkpointing, fault tolerance, and job scheduling so hardware failures cost minutes, not days of compute
What they're looking for
- 4+ years of experience as a production engineer, site reliability engineer, or infrastructure engineer operating large-scale distributed systems in production
- Track record debugging complex failures across distributed systems — networking, hardware, kernel, or scheduler issues
- Strong software engineering skills in Python and/or Go/C++, with the judgment to know when to script a fix versus build a system
- Solid grounding in Linux systems internals and networking fundamentals
- Comfortable owning production systems, including participating in on-call rotations
Tech stack
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