Requirements and responsibilities
ABOUT POOLSIDEIn 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 OUR TEAMWe 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 ROLEDesign and implement the infrastructure and tooling used by poolside researchers and engineers.YOUR MISSIONTo ensure our progress leads to meaningful improvements to our users.RESPONSIBILITIESResearch and implementation of evaluations and benchmarks; both for base models and for instruction following modelsCollaborate with both applied research and product teams to define meaningful metrics and evaluations that capture our progress on real world software development skillsWork in a team: plan future steps, discuss, and communicate clearly with your peersSKILLS & EXPERIENCEExperience with Large Language Models (LLM)Strong understanding and intuition of LLMs, and their limitationsGood taste, and a curious mindsetStrong engineering backgroundStrong programming skills, ideally across multiple languagesFamiliar with full software development life cycleProgramming experienceLinuxStrong algorithmic skillsMultiple languages, including PythonUse modern tools and are always looking to improveStrong critical thinking and ability to question code quality policies when applicablePROCESSIntro call with one of our Founding EngineersTechnical Interview(s) with one of our Founding EngineersTeam fit call with the People teamFinal interview with one of our Founding EngineersBENEFITSFully remote work & flexible hours37 days/year of vacation & holidaysHealth insurance allowance for you and dependentsCompany-provided equipmentWellbeing, always-be-learning and home office allowancesFrequent team get togethersGreat diverse & inclusive people-first culture
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