# Research, Coding Agents 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: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thinkingmachines/71c91050-688e-45e9-b98e-891b82d693e8
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/thinking-machines-research-coding-agents/

## About the role

The Coding Agents team makes our models world-class at agentic coding — writing, debugging, and reasoning about code across long-horizon, multi-turn tasks. You'll join a small, high-leverage team responsible for the recipes, data, and infrastructure behind coding capability gains in every model release.

## What they're looking for

- Strong engineering skills, ability to contribute code and debug in complex codebases
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with at least one deep learning framework (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX). Comfortable with debugging distributed training and writing code that scales
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Physics, Mathematics, or a related discipline with strong theoretical and empirical grounding
- Clarity in communication, an ability to explain complex technical concepts in writing
- Preferred qualifications — we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all preferred qualifications, but at least some:
- Experience building synthetic data pipelines and systems that were adopted by others on your team and remain in use today

Tags: Research