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# Member of Engineering (Design Engineer, Product) at Poolside

- **Company:** Poolside
- **Location:** EMEA / East Coast, United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/poolside/7fb2ceb5-6ace-497f-9c8b-124a9317f789/application

**Skills:** Product Design, Prototyping, UI Design, Version Control, Command Line, Deployment Pipelines, Developer Workflows, Scripting

> Define product vision for AI-driven developer tools by translating ambiguous problems into clear direction. Lead design, experimentation, and rapid prototyping to validate ideas before they become roadmap items, partnering closely with engineering and leadership.

## 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. We believe the fastest way to reach AGI lies in accelerating software development itself, by reshaping the developer experience with agentic systems, coding assistants, and the frontier models that power them. We deploy these systems directly into the development environments of security-conscious enterprises.

## ABOUT OUR TEAM

We were founded in the US and have our home there, but our team is distributed across Europe and North America. We get our fix of in-person collaboration (and croissants) in Paris each month for 3 days, always Monday-Wednesday, with an open invitation to stay the whole week. We also do longer off-sites once a year.

Our team is a multidisciplinary blend of research, engineering, and business experts. What unites us is our deep care for what we build together. We’re in a race that requires hard work, intellectual curiosity, and obsession; to balance this intensity, we’ve assembled a team of low ego and kind-hearted individuals who have built the special culture Poolside has. By building collaboratively and with intention, we create a compounding effect that moves the entire company forward towards our mission: reaching AGI through intelligence systems built for software development.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

This is a role for someone who wants to define what gets built, not just how it looks. You'll own product vision in 0-to-1 spaces, working at the frontier of what Poolside should build next, translating ambiguous problems into clear product direction, and prototyping fast to validate ideas before they become roadmap. You'll work closely with engineering and leadership, partnering tightly with our product design team to shape experiences that sit at the intersection of frontier AI and developer tooling.

The problems here are genuinely hard and the surface area is wide. One day you're digging deep to understand how developers experience a new agentic workflow; the next you're building a proof-of-concept that changes the direction of a product. Your taste and judgment will be visible in what ships.

## YOUR MISSION

To forge the product direction for Poolside's developer experience, defining what we build at the frontier of AI and software development.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own product vision in 0-to-1 spaces, defining what Poolside should build and translating ambiguous problems into clear, buildable direction.
- Lead design, experimentation, and proof-of-concepts that explore what's next for developer tools, feeding insight back into the product roadmap.
- Partner with Product Engineering to move ideas from concept to shipped product, working at both the strategic and the granular level.
- Prototype rapidly and validate early; you're as comfortable in code as you are in a design tool.
- Collaborate with designers and the wider design team to ensure product thinking is consistent and well-resourced across Poolside's surfaces.
- Shape how Poolside shows up externally as a product, including how developers first encounter our work.

## SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

- Strong product intuition with a history of defining what to build, not just how to build it. You've forged direction, not just executed on it.
- A genuine history of building with code: scripts, tools, personal projects shipped from scratch. You can speak concretely to what you built and why.
- Genuine familiarity with developer workflows. Version control, local environments, the command line, deployment pipelines. Not as a curiosity, but as your natural habitat.
- Deep experience designing for developer tools specifically, not general consumer or enterprise products.
- Strong visual craft. You produce polished, high-quality UI and can hold a high bar across the full product experience.
- Comfortable with rapid prototyping, research, and proof-of-concepts. You move fast and validate early.
- Highly autonomous: you set your own direction, bring others along on your thinking, and make good decisions in ambiguity.

## PROCESS

- Intro call with one of our Designers
- Design interview with a Design Engineer (Product). Come with 1–2 projects you forged, not just executed
- Technical interview with a Product Engineer. Expect questions on how you build and think about developer workflows
- Team fit call with the People team
- Final interview

## BENEFITS

- Fully remote work & flexible hours
- 37 days/year of vacation & holidays
- Health insurance allowance for you & dependents
- 16 weeks of flexible, full-pay parental leave
- Well-being, always-be-learning & home office allowances
- Company-provided equipment
- Frequent team get togethers
- Diverse & inclusive people-first culture

## About Poolside

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Poolside builds frontier AI foundation models and agentic systems for enterprise software engineering, deployed entirely within customer infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, $626M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Jason Warner (CEO & Co-founder), Eiso Kant (Co-CEO & Co-founder, CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Artificial intelligence, enterprise software development
- **Target customers**: Large enterprises, government agencies, and organizations with complex, high-consequence software environments (multi-cloud, legacy systems, air-gapped networks)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “For artificial general intelligence to drive abundance for humanity” – starting with software engineering as the strategic beachhead.

## Products & Services
- **Poolside Assistant**: Agent-based code assistance integrated into VS Code, Visual Studio, or any IDE supporting the Agent Client Protocol (ACP). Capable of planning, refactoring, testing, and incident analysis within the developer’s environment.
- **Poolside Chat**: Browser-based chat interface for code-related questions and agent interactions outside the IDE.
- **Poolside Agent CLI (`pool`)**: Command-line tool to run and manage agents in headless environments (CI/CD pipelines, automation workflows).
- **Poolside Console**: Browser-based administrative interface for governance, metrics, and system management.
- **APIs**: Programmatic access to integrate Poolside models, agents, and knowledge connectors into custom tools and automation.
- **Foundation Models**: Custom models trained using reinforcement learning from code execution feedback, optimized for long-horizon software tasks.
- **Data & Knowledge Connectors**: Integration with repositories, databases, data warehouses, and private corpora within strict security boundaries.
- **Forward Deployed Research Engineers (FDRE)**: Embedded experts who help customers design, build, and operate AI systems on-site.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $626 million as of October 2024, including a $500M Series B led by 19 investors [poolside.ai](https://www.poolside.ai/)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series A led by Felicis, Xavier Niel, and others; Series B participants include 19 investors. Seed round led by Redpoint. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/poolsideai)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 89.1% year-over-year to 165 employees; 19 active job postings (up 171% year-over-year). Operates across 20 countries. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/poolsideai)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Security-first deployment**: Models run entirely within the customer’s VPC or on-premises, ensuring code and data never leave the customer’s control. Role-based access control for humans and agents by default. [poolside.ai](https://www.poolside.ai/)
- **Enterprise governance**: Auditability, policy enforcement, and traceability aligned to enterprise review boards and CISO requirements.
- **Outcome ownership model**: Poolside takes joint responsibility for adoption and business impact, rather than simply handing off models.
- **Specialization in high-consequence software**: Battle-tested in the toughest environments (defense, regulated industries), with a focus on long-horizon reasoning and multi-step planning.

## Strategic Focus
- **AGI through software**: The company believes the fastest path to human-level intelligence runs through mastering software engineering, then expanding to other domains.
- **Agentic organizations**: Helping enterprises become “agentic organizations” by embedding AI agents across the development lifecycle.
- **Continued model scaling**: Investing in foundation model research (pre-training, post-training, reinforcement learning) and infrastructure.
- **Global talent acquisition**: Growing a distributed workforce with hubs in the US, UK, France, Netherlands, and other European countries.

## Why Work Here
- **High employee satisfaction**: 5.0/5.0 rating on LinkedIn (based on 1 review) across work-life balance, compensation, culture, and career growth. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/poolsideai)
- **Cutting-edge research**: Work alongside world-class talent at a frontier AI lab, solving the hardest problems in software engineering.
- **Hybrid/remote flexibility**: The company operates across 20 countries, suggesting a distributed-first approach with regional hubs.
- **Growth trajectory**: 89% headcount growth in the past year, with active hiring across engineering (agent harness, pre-training, reinforcement learning, design engineering) and support engineering roles.
- **Impactful mission**: Directly contribute to the development of AGI for abundance, starting with transformative enterprise software.

## Sources
1. [poolside.ai](https://www.poolside.ai/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/poolsideai)
3. [docs.poolside.ai](https://docs.poolside.ai/get-started/overview)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/poolside)

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