Thinking Machines Lab
0 open Forward Deployed Engineer roles at Thinking Machines Lab, plus 1 closed. Curated with comp bands.
On the board since Jul 2026 · no roles open right now
Our take
Why Thinking Machines Lab
Lab-tier comp for the team customers actually meet — fine-tuning as the wedge, FDEs as the delivery mechanism.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- High
- Comp
- Top of market
- Stage
- Frontier lab
A good fit if you're…
- Engineers who want frontier-lab comp and customer-facing scope
- People drawn to fine-tuning and model-customization work
- Candidates who want a founding seat at a marquee new lab
What they do
Thinking Machines Lab, Mira Murati's frontier lab, builds cutting-edge models and ships Tinker, its fine-tuning product. The FDE seat is the human delivery layer that takes that product into customer environments.
What “forward deployed” means here
True forward-deployed, with fine-tuning as the wedge: FDEs are the team customers actually interact with, turning model-customization capability into shipped outcomes. SF-based and founding-era, so scope is broad and process is still forming.
Comp & leveling
The Tinker FDE seat showed $350K–$475K — unambiguously top-of-market and on par with the other frontier labs, confirming TML pays lab-tier for the customer-facing role. (This specific listing is currently closed; the page is retained for the comp benchmark and re-openings.)
Growth signals
A brand-new lab with marquee leadership paying frontier comp for FDEs signals it sees deployment as strategic, not an afterthought. Watch for the seat to re-open as Tinker's customer base grows.
Analysis updated 2026-09-03
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