HR Business Partner

Thinking Machines Lab
San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 190,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: People, HR & TalentExperience: 5+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership coaching","Conflict resolution","Stakeholder advisory","Confidential support","Continuous improvement"]

Coach managers and advise leadership to strengthen team dynamics, succession planning, and organizational decisions. Partner with the business to design people systems that scale: performance and feedback processes, compensation structures, and career/leveling frameworks suited to a research environment. Support researcher and engineer performance, personal growth, and continuous improvement while helping build HR infrastructure for long-term talent alignment.

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Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab
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HR Business Partner

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Job Summary

Coach managers and advise leadership to strengthen team dynamics, succession planning, and organizational decisions. Partner with the business to design people systems that scale: performance and feedback processes, compensation structures, and career/leveling frameworks suited to a research environment. Support researcher and engineer performance, personal growth, and continuous improvement while helping build HR infrastructure for long-term talent alignment.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: People, HR & Talent
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Coach managers by observing how they lead, identifying strengths and blind spots, and driving continuous improvement.
  • •Advise leadership on organizational decisions including team structure, succession planning, and strategic people choices.
  • •Design compensation structures aligned with values while competing for top machine learning talent.
  • •Create career/leveling frameworks for a research lab where advancement isn’t solely based on managing people.
  • •Build feedback and evaluation processes that help people improve.
  • •Provide strategic support on researcher and engineer performance, team dynamics, and personal growth.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 190,000 - 300,000 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionPaid LeaveRelocation

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years experience working as a people leader or HR business partner in a high-growth technical environment.
  • •Fluency with employment law and best practices in North America.
  • •Proven track record of developing HR practices and supporting a diverse set of talent.
  • •10+ years experience as a people leader or HR business partner.
  • •Experience setting up novel systems that scale in a fast-growing company.
Experience:5+ years
Skills:Leadership coachingConflict resolutionStakeholder advisoryConfidential supportContinuous improvement

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Sponsorship available.

Company Brief

Thinking Machines Lab
Develops enterprise AI solutions, custom large language models, and ML platforms to help organizations deploy intelligent applications. Services include data engineering, model development, and AI consulting for scale and production readiness.
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Headquarters: Mumbai, India
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