Software Engineer, Inference at Thinking Machines Lab
About the role
Responsibilities Operate and scale production inference systems serving live traffic, including Tinker's multi-tenant serving platform. Own safe, incremental rollouts for new models, model versions, and inference optimizations. Build and improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and capacity-planning systems. Partner with inference and research teams to productionize new serving techniques. Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and durable fixes for production inference issues. Design…
Interview process at Thinking Machines Lab
General interview process (this company's specific loop isn't published - reach out if you have insider info).
- Recruiter phone screen - typically 20-40 min
- Technical screen - 1 coding problem or take-home; format varies by company
- Onsite / virtual loop - typically 4-6 rounds over 2-3 weeks; exact split of coding, systems design, and behavioral varies by role and location
Platforms used: unknown — MiPrep tested compatible with major platforms
How to prepare
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