Member of Engineering (Agents)

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’ll join our Applied Research Engineering group to help build poolside’s coding agents. Your work will center on building the core agent framework, the supporting tools, and the orchestration environment needed to run coding agents securely, reliably, and at scale.

We’re looking for strong software engineers with a passion for building reliable, high-performance systems. Experience (or strong interest) in AI coding agents is a significant plus.

In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with our product engineering and research teams to continuously build and improve our platform for coding agents.

YOUR MISSION

Help us design and deliver the most capable AI agents for software engineering tasks, pushing the boundaries of what AI agents can do.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, and maintain the core framework for poolside’s coding agents

• Develop scalable, secure, and isolated environments to run agents in complex enterprise environments

• Collaborate with research and product teams to prototype, develop, and evaluate new agent capabilities

• Continuously improve the performance, reliability, and developer experience of our platform

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Solid understanding of AI agents, or a strong interest in developing expertise in this area

• Strong programming skills in either Go, C, C++ or Python (we are open to polyglot engineers from other languages)

• Plus: Experience in large scale, distributed data systems

• Plus: Familiarity with container runtimes, microVMs, or sandboxing systems

PROCESS

• Intro call with one of our Founding Engineers

• Technical Interview(s) with one of our Founding Engineers

• Team fit call with the People team

• Final interview with one of our Founding Engineers

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