Model Designer at Thinking Machines Lab
Company: Thinking Machines Lab
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: On-site
Seniority: Mid-level
Category: Design
Compensation: ~£237k–£316k
Posted: 2026-09-30
Stack: rust, go
Role overview
As a Model Designer, you’ll shape how our models behave and feel, and how people experience working with them. Working alongside the researchers building these models, you might design: how a model reads intent, when it acts on its own, when it asks, and whether the person comes away sharper than they started. You’ll hold several things in tension: pushing what our models can do, anticipating what someone is reaching for before they’ve fully said it, and keeping the…