Developer Relations Engineer, AI Open Source Platform

AI Chopping Block, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Relocation support

Health, dental, and vision benefits

Unlimited PTO

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Thinking Machines in San Francisco seeks a Developer Relations Engineer to help the open source community build with Inkling and Tinker, our models and fine-tuning platform. You’ll work hands-on with real users, turning feedback into product improvements and helping developers maximize value from our tools.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, research and community, requiring writing code, shipping ML recipes, and representing the company through talks and tutorials to a

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in developer relations, developer experience, or a software engineering role with significant open source or community-facing work
• Strong software engineering skills, with experience writing and shipping production-quality Python code
• Hands-on experience fine-tuning, evaluating, or deploying large language models

Responsibilities

• Write, test, and maintain high-quality agentic training, code examples and documentation for Inkling and Tinker
• Work directly with developers and researchers in the open source community to debug issues, gather feedback, and improve their experience fine-tuning and deploying models
• Partner with the research and infrastructure teams to turn community patterns and feedback into concrete improvements to Inkling, future models, Tinker, and develop new post-training recipes
• Build demos, integrations, and tools that make it easier for developers to adopt and get value from Thinking Machines' models
• Represent Thinking Machines in the open source community through blog posts, talks and tutorials, livestreams, and conference and meetup appearances
• Help shape the developer experience roadmap as new models and platform features ship

Skills

Python

Open source / community work

LLM fine-tuning

Production-quality code

Developer relations

Job description

Thinking Machines in San Francisco seeks a Developer Relations Engineer to help the open source community build with Inkling and Tinker, our models and fine-tuning platform. You’ll work hands-on with real users, turning feedback into product improvements and helping developers maximize value from our tools.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, research and community, requiring writing code, shipping ML recipes, and representing the company through talks and tutorials to a