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# Member of Engineering (Evaluations) at Poolside

- **Company:** Poolside
- **Location:** EMEA / East Coast
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-04-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/poolside/ba11fe78-f6f6-4165-b76b-020a46ad8fee/application

**Skills:** Large Language Models (LLM), Programming, Linux, Software Development Life Cycle, Python

> Design and implement infrastructure and tooling for evaluating large language models and instruction-following models. Collaborate with research and product teams to define meaningful metrics and ensure progress leads to meaningful improvements for users.

## 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. [View GDPR Policy](https://poolside.ai/gdpr)

## 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

Design and implement the infrastructure and tooling used by poolside researchers and engineers.

## YOUR MISSION

To ensure our progress leads to meaningful improvements to our users.

## RESPONSIBILITIES

- Research and implementation of evaluations and benchmarks; both for base models and for instruction following models
- Collaborate with both applied research and product teams to define meaningful metrics and evaluations that capture our progress on real world software development skills
- Work in a team: plan future steps, discuss, and communicate clearly with your peers

## SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

- Experience with Large Language Models (LLM)
- Strong understanding and intuition of LLMs, and their limitations
- Good taste, and a curious mindset
- Strong engineering background
- Strong programming skills, ideally across multiple languages
- Familiar with full software development life cycle
- Programming experience
- Linux
- Strong algorithmic skills
- Multiple languages, including Python
- Use modern tools and are always looking to improve
- Strong critical thinking and ability to question code quality policies when applicable

## PROCESS

- Intro call with one of our Founding Engineers
- Technical Interview(s) with one of our Founding Engineers
- 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

## 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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