Member of Engineering, Evaluations

About poolside

In this decade, the world will create artificial intelligence that reaches human level intelligence (and beyond) by combining learning and search. There will only be a small number of companies who will achieve this. Their ability to stack advantages and pull ahead will determine who survives and wins. These companies will move faster than anyone else. They will attract the world's most capable talent. They will be on the forefront of applied research and engineering at scale. They will create powerful economic engines. They will continue to scale their training to larger & more capable models. They will be given the right to raise large amounts of capital along their journey to enable this.

poolside exists to be one of these companies - to build a world where AI will drive the majority of economically valuable work and scientific progress.

We believe that software development will be the first major capability in neural networks that reaches human-level intelligence because it's the domain where we can combine Search and Learning approaches the best.

At poolside we believe our applied research needs to culminate in products that are put in the hands of people. Today we focus on building for a developer-led increasingly AI-assisted world. We believe that current capabilities of AI lead to incredible tooling that can assist developers in their day to day work. We also believe that as we increase the capabilities of our models, we increasingly empower anyone in the world to be able to build software. We envision a future where not 100 million people can build software but 2 billion people can.

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About our team

We are a remote-first team that sits across Europe and North America and comes together once a month in-person for 3 days and for longer offsites twice a year.

Our R&D and production teams are a combination of more research and more engineering-oriented profiles, however, everyone deeply cares about the quality of the systems we build and has a strong underlying knowledge of software development. We believe that good engineering leads to faster development iterations, which allows us to compound our efforts.

About the role

You would be working as part of our Applied Research team, focused on designing evaluations to ensure we are optimizing for the right things. This is a hands-on role where you'll deeply collaborate with pre-training and fine-tuning efforts, as well as with product, to design evaluation suites that are rigorous, scalable, and matter to end users.

Your mission

To ensure our progress leads to meaningful improvements to our users.

Responsibilities

• Research and implementation of evaluations and benchmarks; both for base models and for instruction following models
• Collaborate with both applied research and product teams to define meaningful metrics and evaluations that capture our progress on real world software development skills
• Work in a team: plan future steps, discuss, and communicate clearly with your peers

Skills & Experience

• Experience with Large Language Models (LLM)
• Strong understanding and intuition of LLMs, and their limitations
• Good taste, and a curious mindset
• Strong engineering background
• Strong programming skills, ideally across multiple languages
• Familiar with full software development life cycle
• Programming experience
• Linux
• Strong algorithmic skills
• Multiple languages, including Python
• Use modern tools and are always looking to improve
• Strong critical thinking and ability to question code quality policies when applicable

Process

• Intro call with one of our Founding Engineers
• Technical Interview(s) with one of our Founding Engineers
• Team-fit call with Beatriz, our Head of People
• Final interview with Eiso, our CTO & Co-Founder

Benefits

• Fully remote work & flexible hours
• 37 days/year of vacation & holidays
• Health insurance allowance for you and dependents
• Company-provided equipment
• Wellbeing, always-be-learning and home office allowances
• Frequent team get togethers
• Great diverse & inclusive people-first culture