Thinking Machines Lab
People Operations
San Francisco
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About the role
- They let our researchers, engineers, and builders stay in deep focus-without distraction or uncertainty.
- Compliance happens smoothly instead of creating friction.
- This role reports to the Head of Operations and will be foundational in shaping how we scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the early employee lifecycle. Own our onboarding experience end-to-end, from offer acceptance through completion of new hire training.
- Design compliance systems that are rigorous, reliable, and seamless.
- Manage I-9 verification, employee eligibility documentation, background checks, and compliance training.
- Monitor federal and state employment law obligations as headcount grows and build systems that make compliance straightforward for hiring managers and employees.
- Own immigration case management in coordination with outside counsel across a range of visa types (H-1B, O-1A, EB-1A, PERM, CPT/OPT, and others), including RFE response management and policy monitoring.
- Support international hiring and employer-of-record arrangements for employees outside the U.S.
- Build people programs that cultivate company culture.
- Help design and manage onboarding curricula, manager training, and executive/team coaching engagements, including sourcing coaches, coordinating workshops, and measuring impact.
- Build the playbooks and feedback loops that make these programs improve over time.
- Build infrastructure that works for us. Evaluate, implement, and maintain HRIS, payroll, and adjacent systems (e.g., leading migrations between platforms). Balance vendor capabilities, integration requirements, and flexibility as needs change.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in HR operations, people operations, or a related field
- Strong knowledge of employment compliance, including I-9 requirements, state and federal regulations, and recordkeeping best practices.
- Experience supporting immigration processes in coordination with outside counsel.
- Hands-on experience with HRIS platforms (e.g., Rippling, Workday, SequoiaOne) and comfort evaluating new tools.
- Ability to operate with ambiguity and make principled tradeoffs in fast-moving environments.
- You can take complex policies and make them accessible.
Nice to have
- We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all preferred qualifications.
- Experience at a high-growth technology or AI company
- Experience with international employment (EOR, cross-border hiring).
- Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas.
- While we can't guarantee success for every candidate or role, if you're the right fit, we're committed to working through the visa process together.
- As set forth in Thinking Machines' Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
Compensation
- Depending on background, skills and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is $275,000 - $325,000 USD.
Benefits
- Thinking Machines offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, and relocation support as needed.
- Support the benefits experience.
- Help people understand and maximize their benefits (health, fertility, mental health, retirement, workers' comp).
- Maintain dashboards and trackers across onboarding, immigration, and program health so leadership always has visibility.
- We're a fast growing organization - build the infrastructure, operations and a team that can help us scale.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We sponsor visas.
- While we can't guarantee success for every candidate or role, if you're the right fit, we're committed to working through the visa process together.
This listing is sourced directly from Thinking Machines Lab's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.