Job description
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 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 a member of our team
Technical Interview(s) with a member of our engineering team
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
