Truckee, CA
Lat: 39.33° N
Lon: 120.19° W
Jan 8-11
2026

SEEKING ENGINEERS AND DESIGNERS

Ten engineers and designers are joining Thorin's founding team for a weekend of skiing, learning, and hacking in Tahoe in January. Applications close on December 20th.

I'M INTERESTED
IDEA

At Thorin, we love solving hard problems and debating ideas together. We regularly invite friends to the office to share what we're learning and riff on new ideas. This January, we're taking it to Tahoe for a weekend of skiing, conversation, and building something fun (it'll be a surprise) together.

Whether you're a student researcher, recent grad, founder, or experienced engineer, we'd love to have you. No ski experience necessary.

What's Thorin?

We're building a generational applied AI company for the enterprise. Our approach is to ingest every piece of unstructured information, build real-time understanding of business context, then drive action by direct automation and by surfacing the right information to people at the right moment.

We have a rare combination of advantages. Our founding team includes the co-founder of Palantir, the executive who scaled a workflow automation platform from zero to thousands of customers, and the engineering leader behind Atlassian's productivity suite. Our team comes from Palantir, Ramp, and other top companies, and we're advised by former research leadership at OpenAI.

We're building a team of exceptional people who want to apply AI to every business problem - people who are customer-obsessed, platform-minded, and eager to ship the frontier of applied AI.

SCHEDULE
Thursday
ARRIVE
2100
ARRIVE
Friday
SKI
0800
BREAKFAST
0900
SKI
1700
APRÈS-SKI
Saturday
BUILD
0900
BREAKFAST
1000
BUILD
1700
APRÈS-BUILD
Sunday
SKI
0800
BREAKFAST
0900
SKI
1600
DEPART
Ski Team
Markus Zirn
Markus Zirn

Markus spent a decade as founding Chief Strategy Officer at Workato, scaling their enterprise automation platform from 0 to 10,000+ customers and 1000+ employees.

Greg O'Connor
Greg O'Connor

Greg led engineering teams in applied AI research at Databricks. He previously was an early leader for Palantir Foundry and led automation, analysis, and security products.

Dima Smolin
Dima Smolin

Dima was an engineer at Google where he was an leader on the Gmail team. He also led teams at Superhuman/Grammarly.

Dimitri Knight
Dimitri Knight

Dimitri was most recently a designer at Ramp building AI products. Previously, he designed at Cash App and Delphi.

Raj Chopra
Raj Chopra

Raj was previously an engineer at Palantir, Coinbase, and Cobol Copilot.

Kevin Niechen
Kevin Niechen

Kevin is an investor at 8VC and was previously a research engineer at Airbnb AI Labs.

Pratyay Pandey
Pratyay Pandey

Pratyay is an undergraduate AI researcher at UC Berkeley's BAIR lab.

Logistics
Lodging
Thorin has neighboring cabins a short walk from old-town Truckee. They're comfortable and include all typical amenities. We have a mix of single-occupancy rooms and bunks.
Transport
We'll be driving from SF. Attendees can join one of our cars or provide a ride to others.
Skiing
All skill levels are welcome, including complete beginners. We'll break into sensible groups based on skill level. Snowboarders welcome.
Dining
We'll cook breakfast and dinner together.
Cost
We'll cover the cabins, groceries, gas, and other incidental charges. If you don't have a ski pass or equipment, we'll help out.
Who can apply?
Engineers and designers who are excited to teach, learn, build, socialize, and hit the slopes.
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