Poolside

Research Engineer

• Own the mission end-to-end. Be the technical owner in the field, clarify goals, shape the plan, make the hard calls, and ship systems that move real metrics.
• Partner for impact. Work directly with operators and executives to scope what matters most, then turn it into production results.
• Build with research in the loop. Collaborate with AI R&D on prompts, tools, and model improvements; bring back field-signals that make the next model, and the platform, better.
• Turn wins into a flywheel. Convert patterns into playbooks, products, and libraries so that every deployment is faster, more powerful, and more reliable than the last.

Forward Deployed Research Engineer – Clearance

Recruitment

• 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.
• ABOUT THE ROLE
• We’re looking for our first Data Center **Talent Acquisition & People Operations Lead** — a strategic yet hands-on builder who will lay the foundation for how we attract, hire, and support our team as we grow. You’ll own the full employee experience: from sourcing to hiring all of our talent and ensuring a smooth and great experience for all our team.
• RESPONSIBILITIES
• **Talent Acquisition**
• - Partner with hiring managers and leadership to define and execute on all hiring needs (from writing job descriptions, to sourcing strategies and end-to-end recruitment).
• - Own full-cycle recruitment: sourcing, screening, interviewing, and managing offers and negotiations.
• - Build and manage a pipeline of high-quality candidates across technical and non-technical roles.
• - Partner with the Poolside People team to ensure consistency across all areas of the business.**
• **People Operations**
• - Manage the end-to-end employee experience, including employment, payroll, benefits, compliance and so on.
• - Serve as the first point of contact for team inquiries and ensure an excellent employee experience.
• - Build and maintain processes for scalability and according to the data center unique needs.
• - Partner with the Poolside People team to ensure consistency across all areas of the business.
• - Intro call with Beatriz, Head of People
• - Panel Interview with Beatriz, Jag (People Ops Manager) & Lauren (Strategic Ops Director)
• - Interview with Lance, VP of Data Center
• - Interview with Margarida, COO

Talent Acquisition Lead

Software Engineer

• 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
• Join Applied Research Engineering group to help build coding agents and orchestration environment

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Backend Engineer

• You will be part of the data platform team, which enables applied research teams at poolside to build high quality and large datasets for pretraining and postraining, run large-scale experiments end to end from data retrieval to running evaluations and benchmarks.
• Develop a robust platform that supports the creation of high-quality data pipelines and enables fast, efficient, end-to-end experimentation.
• Build modular, reusable data processing frameworks and libraries in Python.
• Work with applied research teams to build, test, scale and improve specific pipelines.
• Work with both open-source big data solutions and internal systems.
• Enhance system performance and reliability to allow teams to iterate faster.
• Lead best practices in Python development.

Forward Deployed Research Engineer – Clearance

Talent Acquisition Lead

Member of Engineering, Agents

Member of Engineering, Python Tooling