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Provisur Technologies

Saw Operator

Whitewater, WI

$30.45/hr

A hands-on tinkerer who enjoys understanding how things work and troubleshooting challenges * A lifelong learner with a passion for advancing your career and raising your hand when opportunities ...

Provisur Technologies

Saw Operator

Whitewater, WI

$30.45/hr

A hands-on tinkerer who enjoys understanding how things work and troubleshooting challenges * A lifelong learner with a passion for advancing your career and raising your hand when opportunities ...

Tread

Customer Success Manager

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$75K - $100K/yr

Demonstrated ability as a doer, tinkerer, and experimenter , especially with new technologies and communication mediums * 2+ years of experience thriving in high-paced, dynamic environments such as ...

RePublic Schools

Paraprofessional

Nashville, TN · On-site

$14.50 - $18.75/hr

A growth-minded tinkerer who is constantly learning and hungry for feedback * A data-driven analyst who reflects, problem-solves, and takes action based on results * An optimist who supports and ...

RePublic Schools

Paraprofessional

Nashville, TN · On-site

$14.50 - $18.75/hr

A growth-minded tinkerer who is constantly learning and hungry for feedback * A data-driven analyst who reflects, problem-solves, and takes action based on results * An optimist who supports and ...

Provisur Technologies Inc

Saw Operator

Whitewater, WI · On-site

$30.45/hr

A hands-on tinkerer who enjoys understanding how things work and troubleshooting challenges * A lifelong learner with a passion for advancing your career and raising your hand when opportunities ...

Gamma

AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

You'll thrive here if you're a tinkerer who loves pushing foundation models to their limits and you're equally comfortable writing prompts and writing production code. If you get excited about mixing ...

Provisur Technologies

Saw Operator

Whitewater, WI · On-site

$30.45/hr

A hands-on tinkerer who enjoys understanding how things work and troubleshooting challenges * A lifelong learner with a passion for advancing your career and raising your hand when opportunities ...

Formlabs

Pre-Sales Engineer

Somerville, MA · On-site

Natural tinkerer who enjoys creating, designing, making, repairing, and developing new uses for tools Our Benefits & Perks: * Robust equity program to build future wealth through RSUs * Comprehensive ...

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How much do tinkerer jobs pay per hour?

As of Jun 10, 2026, the average hourly pay for tinkerer in the United States is $56.25, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $28.85 and $70.19 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What are Tinkerers?

Tinkerers are individuals who enjoy experimenting, building, repairing, or modifying objects, often as a hobby or in pursuit of innovative solutions. They typically work with their hands, using tools and materials to create or improve devices, gadgets, or mechanical systems. Tinkerers can be found in various fields, including electronics, mechanics, and crafts, and are known for their curiosity and problem-solving skills. Their work often leads to creative inventions or practical fixes for everyday challenges.

What are some common challenges a Tinkerer might face when working on projects in a collaborative workshop setting?

Tinkerers often encounter challenges such as limited access to specialized tools or materials, adapting to different team members’ working styles, and balancing creativity with practical constraints like time and budget. Working in a collaborative workshop also means sharing resources and space, which requires strong communication skills and flexibility. Overcoming these challenges helps Tinkerers develop innovative solutions while fostering a supportive, creative environment that benefits from diverse perspectives.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a Tinkerer, and why are they important?

To thrive as a Tinkerer, you need a solid understanding of mechanical principles, basic electronics, and hands-on problem-solving skills, often gained through self-directed learning, technical training, or vocational education. Familiarity with tools such as soldering irons, multimeters, hand tools, and prototyping platforms like Arduino or Raspberry Pi is common in this role. Creativity, curiosity, and perseverance are valuable soft skills that help Tinkerers experiment and innovate. These skills are important because they enable the practical design, repair, and improvement of devices, fostering innovation and practical solutions to technical challenges.

What is the difference between Tinkerer vs Electronics Technician?

AspectTinkererElectronics Technician
CredentialsOften self-taught or hobbyistTypically holds an associate degree or certification
Work EnvironmentHome workshops, maker spacesManufacturing facilities, repair shops
Industry UsagePersonal projects, DIY communityProfessional electronics repair and maintenance

While Tinkerers experiment and build as a hobby or personal interest, Electronics Technicians work professionally in repair, testing, and maintaining electronic systems, often requiring formal training and certifications. Both are hands-on roles, but their scope and industry application differ significantly.

Infographic showing various Tinkerer job openings in the United States as of June 2026, with employment types broken down into 50% Full Time, and 50% Part Time. Highlights an 100% In-person job distribution, with an average salary of $117,000 per year, or $56.2 per hour.

Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents)

Perplexity

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$220K - $405K/yr

Full-time

Posted 27 days ago

Job description

Perplexity is seeking energetic engineers to join our highly driven Agents engineering team. The Agents team consists of AI/ML, backend, and full-stack engineers who collaborate to build delightful agentic experiences within our Comet ecosystem and Perplexity Computer, our platform for generalized frontier intelligence. Our vision is to empower our users with AI agents that can faithfully actualize their intent, however and wherever expressed, through open-ended interactions with the world.
As an engineer on our Agents team, you will bring AI expertise, sharp product intuition, and a tinkerer's mindset to advance the frontier of what agents can accomplish for our millions of devoted users. You will work across applied research and engineering to solve many open problems in AI, including:
  • Designing AI agents to navigate the digital world and perform increasingly valuable units of work for our users;
  • Training action and decision models that determine, based on complex multimodal states, how to accomplish user-specified objectives;
  • Providing consistently excellent experiences across desktop, mobile, headless cloud, and other environments through flexible abstractions and frictionless backgrounding;
  • Developing permission architectures, payload classifiers, and other methods to implement secure-by-design agentic capabilities;
  • Designing optimal data representations and modes of interaction between agents and their environments;
  • and much, much more.
Responsibilities
  • Drive cutting-edge AI capabilities across multiple layers of a rapidly growing product in the AI agents space.
  • Develop and leverage cutting-edge AI models, infrastructure, and browser technologies to advance the capability frontier and scale those capabilities for a rapidly growing userbase.
  • Ensure a high craft and quality bar, in both AI agent performance and user experience.
  • Collaborate with fellow engineers, designers, product managers, data scientists, and others across the company to integrate core Perplexity functionality into our frontier agentic products and vice-versa.
  • Contribute to product reliability, code quality, AI evaluation, testing, and maintenance across the broader team.
Qualifications
  • Strong foundational familiarity with the full AI product stack.
  • Proficiency in Python (bonus points for TypeScript, Go, and/or Rust).
  • Significant experience in at least one of the following areas:
    • Context engineering and tool interfaces for frontier AI models
    • Post-training and reinforcement learning (particularly for multimodal models)
    • Browser technologies (CDP, Playwright, extension development, etc.)
  • Strong product intuition and taste for user experience excellence.
  • Comfortable working with a small, fast-moving team, must be willing to dive in and take ownership.
  • A passion for shipping products that surprise and delight.

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