Forward Deployed Engineer, Tinker

What You’ll Do

• Write, test, and maintain high-quality code examples, recipes, and documentation in the Tinker cookbook.
• Work directly with a variety of users to debug technical issues and optimize their fine-tuning pipelines.
• Partner with internal research and infra teams to identify and prioritize improvements to Tinker’s developer experience.
• Build tools, integrations, and demos that reduce user friction and make it easy to experiment and deploy models.
• Share insights from the field through posts, guides, and talks.
• Help develop Tinker’s near-term roadmap and long-term product strategy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experienced with fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) with supervised and reinforcement learning, and how to tune the hyperparameters of these algorithms.
• Experienced with developing software libraries, especially open-source libraries.
• Thoughtful about developer experience, with clear ideas around developer ergonomics, onboarding flow, and sharp edges.
• Passionate about engaging with open-source communities, whether by contributing code, answering questions, or sharing learnings.
• Have written public or internal code examples, tutorials, or papers that helped others understand and apply technical concepts.
• Comfortable reasoning about model training, fine-tuning, and inference, and can credibly discuss tradeoffs between different approaches.