poolside · 1 month ago
Founding Forward Deployed Research Engineer (FDRE)
New York, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior LevelPoolside is a company focused on building a world where AI drives economically valuable work and scientific progress. The FDRE role involves embedding with customers to create agentic systems that address complex problems while collaborating with AI R&D to enhance product offerings.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Developer PlatformFoundational AIInformation TechnologyInfrastructureSoftware
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
Required
Exceptional, high-agency, low-ego. You bias to action, collaborate well, and are motivated by impact and outcome
Learning-driven. You pick up new domains quickly, ask sharp questions, and turn are comfortable with ambiguity
Product-minded. You translate field pain into clean abstractions, docs, and tools others can use
Adventurer. You are eager and willing to travel and experience new things, and meet unforeseen challenges with creativity and resourcefulness
Excellent communicator. You express ideas clearly, listen actively, and build east rapport with customers and teammates alike
Strong experience in software engineering & platforms: Backend services at scale; distributed systems; data/feature pipelines; queues/caching; fault tolerance
Strong experience in agentic/LLM systems: multi-agent systems; agent communication/delegation; evals; long-running, fault-tolerant agents; tools/prompt/program design; guardrails
Strong experience in evaluation & experimentation: Designing evals; monitoring performance/drift; fundamentals of Data Science/ML; able to turn a hazy problem into a structured exploration
Strong experience in cloud & ops: Kubernetes, Docker, IaC (Terraform/CDK), networking, secrets, observability (Grafana/Prometheus/Datadog), CI/CD
Strong experience in model ops: Fine-tuning/RL; designing agent environments; managing inference
Strong experience in enterprise delivery: Security/compliance, data governance, integration with legacy systems
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 in Paris
Great diverse & inclusive people-first culture
Company
poolside
Poolside is an artificial intelligence platform that offers foundation concepts and infrastructure to write software codes.
Founded in 2023
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$626MKey Investors
Bain Capital VenturesRedpoint
2024-10-02Series B· $500M
2023-08-24Series A· $100M
2023-05-14Seed· $26M
Leadership Team
Eiso Kant
Co-CEO & Co-founder
Jason Warner
Co-CEO & Co-Founder
Recent News
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