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Infrastructure Engineer, Security

Thinking Machines · Remote · $200k–$475k

The role

This role involves architecting security patterns for platforms and services, managing identity and access, and building secure data platforms. The engineer will write threat models, automate security checks, and partner with research and product teams to enable secure and scalable development.

Pay
$200k–$475k
Location
Remote
Work mode
Onsite
Level
Mid
Education
Bachelors
Sponsorship
Offered

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  • Posted 35 days agothe first time we saw it
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About Thinking Machines

Thinking Machines builds AI that extends human will and judgment, training frontier models and developing tools for human-AI communication.

What you would do

  • Architect security patterns for platforms and services.
  • Manage identity, access, and secrets for humans and services.
  • Build secure platforms for data ingestion, processing, and curation.
  • Write threat models and review designs with researchers and engineers.
  • Automate security checks and build guardrails.

Must have

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in engineering or similar.
  • Strong background with containers and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) and securing them.
  • Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar).
  • Solid understanding of cloud networking and security.
  • Proficiency with a systems language such as Rust and scripting in Python.
  • Evidence of owning complex, production-critical systems.

Nice to have

  • Experience with ML infrastructure, GPU clusters, or large-scale training environments.
  • Background in AI labs, HPC environments, or ML-heavy organizations.
  • Experience profiling and tuning high-throughput systems.
  • Talks, blogs, or publications on infrastructure security, distributed systems, or performance engineering.
  • Open-source contributions to security, orchestration, observability, or infrastructure tooling.
  • Familiarity with securing specialized hardware (GPUs, TPUs) and their integrations.

What you get

  • Generous health, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Relocation support as needed.

Experience and education

  • Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

Key skills

  • kubernetes
  • terraform
  • rust
  • python
  • vpc
  • load balancers
  • service discovery
  • mtls
  • firewalls
  • zero trust
  • iam
  • secrets management
  • rbac
  • policy as code
  • ci/cd
  • network segmentation
  • encryption
  • access controls

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 wort…

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