Thinking Machines Lab · 2 months ago
Research, Vision Expertise
San Francisco
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$350K/yr - $475K/yrThinking Machines Lab's mission is to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence. The role involves advancing the science of visual perception and multimodal learning by developing architectures, datasets, and evaluation tools that teach AI to see and understand.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIInformation TechnologyProduct ResearchSoftware
Responsibilities
Own research projects on training and performance analysis of multimodal AI models
Curate and build large-scale datasets and evaluation benchmarks to advance vision capabilities
Work with our data infrastructure engineers, pretraining researchers and engineers, and product team to create frontier multimodal models and the products that leverage them
Publish and present research that moves the entire community forward
Share code, datasets, and insights that accelerate progress across industry and academia
Qualification
Required
Ability to design, run, and analyze experiments thoughtfully, with demonstrated research judgment and empirical rigor
Understanding of machine learning fundamentals, large-scale training, and distributed compute environments
Proficiency in Python and familiarity with at least one deep learning framework (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX). Comfortable with debugging distributed training and writing code that scales
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline with strong theoretical and empirical grounding
Clarity in communication, an ability to explain complex technical concepts in writing
Preferred
Research or engineering contributions in visual reasoning, spatial understanding, or multimodal architecture design
Experience developing evaluation frameworks for multimodal tasks
Publications or open-source contributions in vision-language modeling, video understanding, or multimodal AI
A strong grasp of probability, statistics, and ML fundamentals. You can look at experimental data and distinguish between real effects, noise, and bugs
PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline with strong theoretical and empirical grounding; or, equivalent industry research experience
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
11-50 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (9)
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$2.01BKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzMinistry of Economy, Culture and Innovation
2025-06-20Seed· $2B
2025-05-05Grant· $9.98M
Leadership Team
Mira Murati
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Jonathan Lachman
Founding Head of Operations
Recent News
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2026-01-22
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