# Product Manager - Post Training at Thinking Machines

- Company: Thinking Machines
- What the company does: Connectionism: Research Blog by Thinking Machines Lab. Backed by a16z, Accel and GV.
- Company website: https://thinkingmachines.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $350K to $400K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thinkingmachines/1b503b26-dd56-4496-8f74-2c8abb3b7e4b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/thinking-machines-product-manager-post-training/

## About the role

This is a product role for someone who can operate inside frontier research without trying to turn research into a conventional software roadmap. The work requires judgment, technical fluency, user empathy, discretion, and the ability to create clarity without creating bureaucracy.

## What they're looking for

- Experience as an early or first product leader in a technical startup, AI lab, research organization, or new product area where the role and operating model were not defined for you
- Experience working closely with model training, post-training, RL, evaluations, data, safety, inference, developer platforms, or another technically demanding research-product area
- Ability to understand research deeply enough to earn trust, ask sharp questions, and connect technical choices to model behavior and users without overstating your expertise
- Strong track record identifying the missing connection, unresolved assumption, or cross-team decision that specialists may not see while deep in the work
- Ability to represent user and product truth in a research environment without reducing research to a list of customer requests
- Comfortable making progress when the goal, metric, or path is still evolving, and the correct next step may be a learning loop rather than a launch

Tags: Product Management