Member of Engineering (Agents)

poolside; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI technology firm is seeking experienced software engineers to join their Applied Research Engineering team. The role involves building and maintaining coding agents' core framework and tools while collaborating with product and research teams. Ideal candidates will have strong programming skills and a solid understanding or interest in AI systems. The company offers a fully remote setup with a diverse and inclusive culture as well as generous vacation days.

Benefits

Fully remote work & flexible hours

37 days/year of vacation & holidays

Health insurance allowance for you and dependents

Company-provided equipment

Wellbeing, learning and home office allowances

Frequent team get togethers

Diverse & inclusive culture

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of AI agents or strong interest in expertise development.
• Strong programming skills in Go, C, C++ or Python.
• Experience in large scale, distributed data systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the core framework for coding agents.
• Develop scalable, secure, and isolated environments.
• Collaborate with research and product teams to prototype new capabilities.
• Continuously improve platform performance and reliability.

Skills

AI agents understanding

Programming skills in Go, C, C++ or Python

Experience in large scale distributed data systems

Familiarity with container runtimes, microVMs or sandboxing

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 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