# Software Engineer, Product 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: On-site
- Pay: $300K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thinkingmachines/98aeba6f-1579-4e2f-9c00-5dd4a483f3b2
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/thinking-machines-software-engineer-product/

## About the role

We're hiring a Full Stack Engineer to help conceive, build, and ship new AI-powered products from the ground up. You'll work on early-stage product ideas that sit at the edge of what our models can do — moving from prototype to something real people rely on, often within weeks rather than quarters.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership across both frontend and backend systems
- Strong track record shipping production web applications end to end, from data model and API design through polished user-facing interfaces
- Comfort working in ambiguous, fast-changing environments where product direction is still being discovered
- Experience making pragmatic technical tradeoffs to move quickly without accumulating unmanageable risk
- Experience building products on top of large language models or other frontier AI systems, including working around their quirks and limitations
- A strong product sense — you enjoy figuring out what's worth building as much as how to build it

Tags: Core Engineering