Member of Engineering (Search)

ABOUT POOLSIDE

In this decade, the world will create Artificial General Intelligence. There will only be a small number of companies who will achieve this. Their ability to stack advantages and pull ahead will define the winners. 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, engineering, infrastructure and deployment at scale. 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. They will create powerful economic engines. They will obsess over the success of their users and customers.

poolside exists to be this company - to build a world where AI will be the engine behind economically valuable work and scientific progress.

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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 team comprises a combination of research and engineering-oriented profiles. Everyone deeply cares about the quality of the systems we build and possesses a strong foundation in 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 team, focused on designing and building systems that help our models provide better answers to customers’ use cases. This position is not only about searching with different retrieval algorithms. We are seeking someone to assist us in designing the capabilities that future autonomous agents will need to solve complex tasks.

YOUR MISSION

To build the tools and search/retrieval systems that expand the knowledge base of our models through agentic behaviour.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and implement large-scale data ingestion pipelines

• Experiment with retrieval algorithms

• Design agentic tools that bridge the gap between model capabilities and data, making our model results more relevant

• Ensure these capabilities are part of the product and of the model training process

• Follow the latest research on LLMs, search, RAG, agentic tools, and source code generation

• Propose and evaluate innovations that help LLMs solve the complexity behind context in very large organizations

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

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

• Strong experience in database and storage systems

• Solid grasp of LLM fundamentals: How they work, what they are trained on

• Comfortable with distributed systems

  • Data pipelines, distributed processing, fault tolerance, performance optimization

  • Message queues, event-driven architectures, e.g. Kafka, Google pub/sub

  • Clouds: managed services, storage. GCP, AWS, Azure

• Engineering experience

  • DevOps: Git, Docker, k8s, Terraform, baremetal

  • Monitoring and alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)

  • Strong algorithmic skills

  • Use modern tools and are always looking to improve

PROCESS

• Intro call with José, our Head of Production

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

• Team-fit call with People team

• 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

Data Retention

Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, as required to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, or as necessary to resolve disputes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider our statutory obligations, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes we process your personal data for, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means. We specify the retention periods for your personal data in our data retention policy. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent. If you are offered and accept employment with poolside, the personal data we collected during the application and recruitment process will become part of your employment record, and we may use it in connection with your employment consistent with our employee personal data policies. If you do not become an employee, or, once you are no longer an employee of poolside, we will retain and securely destroy your personal data in accordance with our document retention policy and applicable laws and regulations.

Rights of Access, Correction, Erasure and Objection

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during the recruitment process. By law you may have the right to request access to, correct, and erase the personal data that we hold about you, or object to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. You may also have the right to request that we transfer your personal data to another party. If you want to review, verify, correct, or request erasure of your personal data, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal data to another party, please contact us at legal@poolside.ai . Any such communication must be in writing. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access, and to provide you with the personal data that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all of the personal data that we hold about you, or we may have destroyed, erased, or anonymized your personal data in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal data, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.

Right to Withdraw Consent

Where you have provided your consent to the collection, processing, and transfer of your personal data, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, contact us at legal@poolside.ai

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new Privacy Notice when we make any updates. If we would like to use your previously collected personal data for different purposes than those we notified you about at the time of collection, we will provide you with notice and, where required by law, seek your consent, before using your personal data for a new or unrelated purpose. We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent only where required by applicable law or regulation.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our processing of your personal data or would like to make an access or other request, please contact us at legal@poolside.ai