# Reliability Engineer, Supercomputing 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: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $350K to $475K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thinkingmachines/8023baca-61b5-4f7d-b145-b96881754366
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/thinking-machines-reliability-engineer-supercomputing/

## About the role

We're hiring an engineer to ensure the reliability of our GPU supercomputing fleet, owning the seam between hardware, firmware, and operating system. You will track the long tail of hardware issues: We are conducting frontier research in AI and a single bad NIC, HBM or a kernel driver edge case can compromise an experiment.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar
- Proficiency in at least one backend language (we use Python or Rust)
- Experience operating large‑scale clusters and container orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes or Slurm)
- Comfort operating across the stack and owning projects end-to-end
- Thrive in a highly collaborative environment involving many, different cross-functional partners and subject matter experts
- A bias for action with a mindset to take initiative to work across different stacks and different teams where you spot the opportunity to make sure something ships

Tags: Core Engineering