AI Tooling Engineer: Boost Dev Productivity with Sandboxes

Thinkingmachines; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 350,000 - 475,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision benefits

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Relocation support

Job summary

Thinking Machines Lab is hiring a developer productivity engineer in San Francisco to advance internal AI tooling for coding productivity. You will partner with platform, security, and product engineers to build state-of-the-art tooling for AI-assisted software development and improve the inner loop efficiency.

You will work on setting up company-wide platforms and accelerating individual developer workflows, with an evergreen posting and visa sponsorship available for the right candidate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience in computer science, engineering, or similar.
• Experience developing productivity tools and best practices for large codebases.
• Ability to communicate clearly and work with researchers to build and manage a variety of internal tools.

Responsibilities

• Enable researchers and engineers to leverage AI to improve coding productivity without compromising code quality.
• Standardize AI coding tools, configure, harden, and maintain org-wide configurations.
• Build secure, reproducible agent sandboxes for remote dev & CI testing.
• Set up golden-path dev environments and guardrails for secrets/PII.
• Help individual contributors develop their personalized AI-enabled workflow.
• Track tool usage, reliability, and cost.

Skills

Productivity tools

Internal tooling

Communication with researchers

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in CS/engineering

Tools

Docker/Kubernetes

GitHub Actions/Buildkite

uv packaging tools

Job description

Thinking Machines Lab is hiring a developer productivity engineer in San Francisco to advance internal AI tooling for coding productivity. You will partner with platform, security, and product engineers to build state-of-the-art tooling for AI-assisted software development and improve the inner loop efficiency.

You will work on setting up company-wide platforms and accelerating individual developer workflows, with an evergreen posting and visa sponsorship available for the right candidate.