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Thinking Machines Lab salaries

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42 openings with posted pay · Updated Oct 31, 2026

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Thinking Machines Lab

42 matching openings with posted pay
1
Engineering Manager

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Manager

$450k–$500k / year
2
Research Engineer, Web Crawling

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$350k–$475k / year
3
Research Software Engineer, Post Training

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$350k–$475k / year
4
Technical Program Manager, Supercomputing

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$350k–$475k / year
5
Research, Finetuning Science

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Mid-Level

$350k–$475k / year
6
Research, Tinker, RL Systems

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$350k–$475k / year
7
Research, Post-Training Evals

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Senior

$350k–$475k / year
8
Research Lead, Tinker, Fine-tuning Science

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco, CA · Manager

$350k–$475k / year

Median base salary

$330k

42 openings with posted pay

Typical range

$325k–$413k

25th to 75th percentile

Across all 26,320 openings with posted pay, the median is $175k. Annual base salary. Equity and bonus excluded. Methodology

Thinking Machines Lab by role

Bar shows 25th to 75th percentile

AI & Autonomy9 openings
Typical range $413k–$413k
$413k
Typical range $325k–$350k
$350k

Top-paying companies

All openings · Median pay · 8+ openings each

1MatX26 roles$394k
2Aaru18 roles$353k
3Anthropic586 roles$345k
4Thinking Machines Lab42 roles$330k
5OpenAI647 roles$308k
6Simile9 roles$300k
7Periodic Labs24 roles$294k
8World Labs8 roles$288k
9Goodfire17 roles$288k
10Wayve76 roles$285k
11Wispr Flow32 roles$280k
12Polymarket38 roles$278k
13Lambda90 roles$277k
14Whop21 roles$275k
15Oxide14 roles$275k

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Methodology

All figures come from salary ranges companies publish on their own job postings, pulled from their applicant tracking systems hourly. Nothing is self-reported or estimated.

Pay in other currencies is converted at fixed recent exchange rates. Hourly, weekly, and monthly pay is annualized. Everything is base salary only. Equity and bonus are excluded because postings rarely quantify them.

Stats are medians and quartiles of each posting's range midpoint, weighted by open roles. Groups with fewer than 30 openings (8 for a single company) are not shown.

Numbers reflect currently open roles, not historical offers. About 56% of tracked openings post pay. US pay-transparency laws drive most disclosure, so coverage skews to US roles. Explore hiring patterns in the hiring report.

Frequently asked questions

What is the median salary at companies building the future?
The median posted base salary is $175k per year, across 26,320 live openings at 530 companies. The middle half of postings falls between $135k and $225k.
Which startup roles pay the most?
AI & Autonomy roles lead at a $230k median, followed by Software & Data ($214k) and Infrastructure, IT, & Security ($200k), based on the ranges companies post on live openings.
Which companies building the future pay the highest salaries?
MatX tops the list with a $394k median posted base salary, ahead of Aaru ($353k) and Anthropic ($345k), among companies with eight or more openings that post pay.
Do startup job postings include salary?
About 56% of the openings BuildList tracks post a pay range. Disclosure is highest at US companies covered by pay-transparency laws, so coverage skews to US roles.
Where does this salary data come from?
From the pay ranges companies publish on their own job postings, pulled hourly from their applicant tracking systems and normalized to annual base salary. Equity and bonus are excluded. Nothing is self-reported or estimated.

These numbers come from 26,320 live openings. Browse the roles behind them.