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Software Engineer, Distributed Systems at Thinking Machines Lab

Company: Thinking Machines Lab

Location: San Francisco

Workplace: On-site

Seniority: Mid-level

Category: Engineering · software engineer

Compensation: ~£237k–£316k

Posted: 2026-10-02

Stack: python, go

Role overview

We're hiring a Software Engineer, Distributed Systems to design and build the core distributed systems that everything else at Thinking Machines runs on — orchestration, scheduling, storage, and networking across thousands of machines. Your work underpins both Inkling's training clusters and Tinker's serving platform, and shows up anywhere we need software to coordinate reliably at scale. This is deep systems work. You'll be reasoning about consensus, fault tolerance, and…

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