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poolside · 2 months ago

Forward Deployed Research Engineer (FDRE - Clearance)

New York, US

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

Poolside is a company focused on building a world where AI drives economically valuable work and scientific progress. As a Forward Deployed Research Engineer, you will work closely with customers to develop agentic systems that address complex problems, while collaborating with AI R&D to enhance models and products.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Developer PlatformInformation TechnologyInfrastructureSoftware

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Own the mission end-to-end. Be the technical owner in the field, clarify goals, shape the plan, make the hard calls, and ship systems that move real metrics

Partner for impact. Work directly with operators and executives to scope what matters most, then turn it into production results

Build with research in the loop. Collaborate with AI R&D on prompts, tools, and model improvements; bring back field-signals that make the next model, and the platform, better

Turn wins into a flywheel. Convert patterns into playbooks, products, and libraries so that every deployment is faster, more powerful, and more reliable than the last

Qualification

Software engineeringAgentic/LLM systemsCloud & opsEvaluation & experimentationModel opsLearning-drivenProduct-mindedAdventurerExceptional collaboration

Required

US clearance

Exceptional, high-agency, low-ego

Learning-driven

Product-minded

Adventurer

Preferred

Strong experience in software engineering & platforms: Backend services at scale; distributed systems; data/feature pipelines; queues/caching; fault tolerance

Experience with agentic/LLM systems: multi-agent systems; agent communication/delegation; evals; long-running, fault-tolerant agents; tools/prompt/program design; guardrails

Experience in evaluation & experimentation: Designing evals; monitoring performance/drift; fundamentals of Data Science/ML; able to turn a hazy problem into a structured exploration

Experience with cloud & ops: Kubernetes, Docker, IaC (Terraform/CDK), networking, secrets, observability (Grafana/Prometheus/Datadog), CI/CD

Experience in model ops: Fine-tuning/RL; designing agent environments; managing inference

Experience in enterprise delivery: Security/compliance, data governance, integration with legacy systems