Member of Engineering (Applied Research Engineering)

poolside; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in the United Kingdom is seeking a developer to build a code execution platform for reinforcement learning from code execution feedback. The ideal candidate will have strong programming skills, experience with distributed systems, and familiarity with cloud services. The role offers flexible working hours, generous vacation, and a diverse culture.

Benefits

Fully remote work & flexible hours

37 days/year of vacation & holidays

Health insurance allowance for you and dependents

Company-provided equipment

Wellbeing allowances

Frequent team get togethers

Inclusive people-first culture

Qualifications

• Strong programming background in Go, C, C++, or Python.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• Familiar with various cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Build a scalable code execution platform.
• Work with container runtimes and static code analyzers.
• Implement distributed data systems.

Skills

Strong programming skills in either Go, C, C++ or Python

Comfortable with distributed systems

Data pipelines, distributed processing, fault tolerance

Message queues, event-driven architectures

Cloud services: GCP, AWS, Azure

Experience with testing code

Container runtimes and Linux system programming

DevOps: Git, Docker, k8s, Terraform

Monitoring and alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

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

Reinforcement Learning from Code Execution Feedback (RLCEF) is our method for enhancing our large language model by completing billions of tasks in tens of thousands of real world software projects (soon millions). You will be working on poolside’s code execution platform that powers RLCEF.

YOUR MISSION

Build a scalable platform that can support poolside’s fine tuning efforts by code execution and static analysis.

RESPONSIBILITIES

On this team you will build our code execution platform which involves working with container runtimes, static code analyzers, parsers and distributed data systems.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Strong programming skills in either Go, C, C++ or Python (we are open to polyglot engineers from other languages)

• Comfortable with distributed systems

• Data pipelines, distributed processing, fault tolerance, performance optimization.

• Message queues, event-driven architectures, e.g. Kafka, Google pub/sub.

• Clouds: managed services, storage. GCP, AWS, Azure.

• Experience with testing code

• Unit testing

• Integration testing

• Test performance optimization

• Plus: Experience in container runtimes and Linux system programming

• Plus: Experience with build tools and CI/CD pipelines

• Other relevant tools/experience:

  • DevOps: Git, Docker, k8s, Terraform, baremetal.

  • Monitoring and alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog).

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 Eiso, our CTO & Co-Founder

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