# Product Manager

About Thinking Machines The mission of Thinking Machines is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. We are training frontier models with Inkling, developing Tinker to let people make models their own, and crafting interfaces that broaden human-AI communication. We believe the future worth building is human, and we're hiring people who want to build it. About the Role As Product Manager you will own how Thinking Machines' models and fine-tuned checkpoints go from training into production use. You will shape the path from a trained model to a served, reliable, cost-effective endpoint - covering inference infrastructure, serving APIs, latency and throughput tradeoffs, scaling behavior, observability, and the workflows researchers and external users rely on to deploy their work with confidence. This is not a mature MLOps role at an established platform. Deployment at Thinking Machines is still being defined: what "production-ready" means for a fine-tuned model, which serving paths we support, how much control users get over performance and cost tradeoffs, and how we scale reliably as usage grows. You will work from infrastructure capability through to a deployment experience

- **Id**: 83506
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/thinking-machines-lab-research-product-manager>
- **Role**: Product
- **Role family**: Product
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-04T17:30:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T12:55:38Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 98
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4516
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Parental leave, Unlimited PTO
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Multimodal AI, Foundation Models, AI Research Labs, AI Development Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 14382
- **Name**: Thinking Machines Lab
- **Domain**: thinkingmachines.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/thinking-machines-lab>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 20
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.95
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 350000
- **Max**: 400000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 400000

## Technologies

- **Quantization** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 98

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-08-04T17:30:13Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 56; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 30; Filings 12m: 30

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.285
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 98
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 400000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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