# Thinking Machines Lab - **Answer**: Thinking Machines Lab builds mostly with Python, Rust, JavaScript, C++. Its stack also includes PyTorch, JAX, Kubernetes, Linux. Python is named in 47 of the 74 job postings Thinking Machines Lab published in the last 12 months (64%). Counted by Alion from the job postings of Thinking Machines Lab, updated Nov 11, 2026. - **Window days**: 365 - **Postings analysed**: 74 - **Open postings**: 47 - **Technologies in use**: 109 - **Modernity score**: 80 - **Ai adoption**: yes - **License**: CC BY-SA 4.0 ## Company - **Id**: 14382 - **Name**: Thinking Machines Lab - **Domain**: thinkingmachines.ai - **Url**: ## Technologies - **Python** — Layer: languages; Postings: 47; Share: 0.6351; Required: 42; Open postings: 28; First seen: 2026-02-03 - **Machine Learning** — Layer: practices; Postings: 31; Share: 0.4189; Required: 27; Open postings: 23; First seen: 2026-02-03 - **PyTorch** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 27; Share: 0.3649; Required: 21; Open postings: 20; First seen: 2026-02-03 - **JAX** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 24; Share: 0.3243; Required: 20; Open postings: 18; First seen: 2026-02-03 - **Rust** — Layer: languages; Postings: 23; Share: 0.3108; Required: 21; Open postings: 11; First seen: 2026-02-03 - **Post-training** — Layer: practices; Postings: 20; Share: 0.2703; Required: 19; Open postings: 13; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **Kubernetes** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 20; Share: 0.2703; Required: 8; Open postings: 12; First seen: 2026-06-24 - **TensorFlow** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 17; Share: 0.2297; Required: 14; Open postings: 14; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **Fine-tuning** — Layer: practices; Postings: 16; Share: 0.2162; Required: 15; Open postings: 8; First seen: 2026-04-27 - **LLM** — Layer: ai; Postings: 11; Share: 0.1486; Required: 4; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **Reinforcement Learning** — Layer: practices; Postings: 10; Share: 0.1351; Required: 6; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-04-27 - **Multimodal AI** — Layer: practices; Postings: 9; Share: 0.1216; Required: 8; Open postings: 5; First seen: 2026-02-03 - **Pre-training** — Layer: practices; Postings: 9; Share: 0.1216; Required: 8; Open postings: 7; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **Linux** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 9; Share: 0.1216; Required: 5; Open postings: 5; First seen: 2026-06-24 - **SLURM** — Layer: tools; Postings: 8; Share: 0.1081; Required: 5; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-06-24 - **AI Agents** — Layer: practices; Postings: 8; Share: 0.1081; Required: 3; Open postings: 7; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **CI/CD** — Layer: practices; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0946; Required: 5; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **RLHF** — Layer: practices; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0946; Required: 1; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **SGLang** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0946; Required: 1; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **vLLM** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 7; Share: 0.0946; Required: 1; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **Synthetic Data** — Layer: practices; Postings: 6; Share: 0.0811; Required: 4; Open postings: 6; First seen: 2026-08-24 - **Quantization** — Layer: practices; Postings: 6; Share: 0.0811; Required: 2; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **LoRA** — Layer: ai; Postings: 5; Share: 0.0676; Required: 5; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **Ray** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 5; Share: 0.0676; Required: 3; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-02-03 - **CUDA** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 5; Share: 0.0676; Required: 2; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-06-24 - **JavaScript** — Layer: languages; Postings: 5; Share: 0.0676; Required: 2; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-07-02 - **NCCL** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 5; Share: 0.0676; Required: 2; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-06-24 - **PEFT** — Layer: ai; Postings: 5; Share: 0.0676; Required: 2; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **Terraform** — Layer: tools; Postings: 5; Share: 0.0676; Required: 2; Open postings: 1; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **TPU** — Layer: tools; Postings: 5; Share: 0.0676; Required: 1; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **C++** — Layer: languages; Postings: 4; Share: 0.0541; Required: 4; Open postings: 1; First seen: 2026-08-26 - **React.js** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 4; Share: 0.0541; Required: 4; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-07-02 - **SRE** — Layer: practices; Postings: 4; Share: 0.0541; Required: 4; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **TypeScript** — Layer: languages; Postings: 4; Share: 0.0541; Required: 4; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-07-02 - **Spark** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 4; Share: 0.0541; Required: 3; Open postings: 1; First seen: 2026-02-03 - **DPO** — Layer: practices; Postings: 4; Share: 0.0541; Required: 1; Open postings: 1; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **RLAIF** — Layer: practices; Postings: 4; Share: 0.0541; Required: 1; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **DeepSpeed** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 4; Share: 0.0541; Required: 0; Open postings: 3; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **PPO** — Layer: practices; Postings: 4; Share: 0.0541; Required: 0; Open postings: 1; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **XLA** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 4; Share: 0.0541; Required: 0; Open postings: 4; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **Clarity** — Layer: languages; Postings: 3; Share: 0.0405; Required: 3; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-08-21 - **Apache Kafka** — Layer: cloud; Postings: 3; Share: 0.0405; Required: 2; Open postings: 1; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **Megatron-LM** — Layer: frameworks; Postings: 3; Share: 0.0405; Required: 0; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **Claude Code** — Layer: tools; Postings: 2; Share: 0.027; Required: 2; Open postings: 0; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **ClickHouse** — Layer: data; Postings: 2; Share: 0.027; Required: 2; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-08-26 - **Cursor** — Layer: tools; Postings: 2; Share: 0.027; Required: 2; Open postings: 0; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **Delta Lake** — Layer: data; Postings: 2; Share: 0.027; Required: 2; Open postings: 0; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **EU AI Act** — Layer: practices; Postings: 2; Share: 0.027; Required: 2; Open postings: 2; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **Git** — Layer: tools; Postings: 2; Share: 0.027; Required: 2; Open postings: 0; First seen: 2026-08-04 - **Jupyter Notebook** — Layer: tools; Postings: 2; Share: 0.027; Required: 2; Open postings: 0; First seen: 2026-04-27 - … 59 more in the JSON form ## Changes ### First appeared - **Reward Modeling** — First seen: 2026-08-27 - **C++** — First seen: 2026-08-26 - **SFT** — First seen: 2026-08-26 - **ClickHouse** — First seen: 2026-08-26 - **Synthetic Data** — First seen: 2026-08-24 - **Clarity** — First seen: 2026-08-21 - **KV Cache** — First seen: 2026-08-21 - **Mixture of Experts** — First seen: 2026-08-21 ### Rising - **Post-training** — Share from: 11; Share to: 40 - **Fine-tuning** — Share from: 7; Share to: 28 - **Reinforcement Learning** — Share from: 4; Share to: 19 - **Synthetic Data** — Share from: 0; Share to: 14 - **AI Agents** — Share from: 4; Share to: 16 - **C++** — Share from: 0; Share to: 9 - **Quantization** — Share from: 4; Share to: 12 - **Clarity** — Share from: 0; Share to: 7 ### Falling - **SLURM** — Share from: 21; Share to: 5 - **XLA** — Share from: 14; Share to: 0 - **CI/CD** — Share from: 18; Share to: 5 - **Terraform** — Share from: 14; Share to: 2 - **DeepSpeed** — Share from: 11; Share to: 2 - **CUDA** — Share from: 11; Share to: 5 - **JavaScript** — Share from: 11; Share to: 5 - **Multimodal AI** — Share from: 14; Share to: 9 ## Similar stacks - [Baseten](https://alion.io/company/baseten/technologies) — Shared technologies: 90 - [Together AI](https://alion.io/company/together/technologies) — Shared technologies: 89 - [Fireworks AI](https://alion.io/company/fireworks/technologies) — Shared technologies: 86 - [Cohere](https://alion.io/company/cohere/technologies) — Shared technologies: 82 - [Prime Intellect](https://alion.io/company/primeintellect/technologies) — Shared technologies: 72 - [DigitalOcean](https://alion.io/company/digitalocean/technologies) — Shared technologies: 85 - [Nscale](https://alion.io/company/nscale/technologies) — Shared technologies: 87 - [MiniMax](https://alion.io/company/minimax/technologies) — Shared technologies: 70 --- [Page](https://alion.io/company/thinking-machines-lab/technologies) · [JSON](https://alion.io/company/thinking-machines-lab/technologies.json) Source: Alion (alion.io), 2026-11-12. 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