Thinking Machines Lab interview preparation
Thinking Machines Lab
thinkingmachines.aiWalk into Thinking Machines Lab prepared.
Know what it looks for.
Thinking Machines Lab is the San Francisco AI research and product company founded in 2025 by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, with John Schulman as chief scientist and PyTorch creator Soumith Chintala as CTO. It builds Tinker, a fine-tuning API that passed a $100M revenue run-rate, the open-weights Inkling model family, and real-time 'interaction models', all under a mission to build AI that extends human will and judgment. Interviews at this roughly 100-130 person lab are technical from the first call, weave behavioral questions about ownership, small-team collaboration and judgment under uncertainty into every round, and reward candidates who have actually used Tinker, read the Connectionism research blog and can defend one deep area of expertise.
What we know about Thinking Machines Lab
- 10 audio episodes, about 2 hours of listening, 1 free
- Mock interviews for every round, with a written report
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