Applied Research Engineer

Summary

Join poolside, a company building AI to drive economically valuable work and scientific progress, and contribute to our code execution platform powering Reinforcement Learning from Code Execution Feedback (RLCEF). You will build a scalable platform supporting poolside's fine-tuning efforts through code execution and static analysis. This role involves working with container runtimes, static code analyzers, parsers, and distributed data systems. We are a remote-first team with a strong focus on engineering excellence and collaboration. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including fully remote work, flexible hours, generous vacation time, health insurance, and various allowances.

Requirements

• 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

Responsibilities

• Build a scalable platform that can support poolside’s fine tuning efforts by code execution and static analysis
• Build our code execution platform which involves working with container runtimes, static code analyzers, parsers and distributed data systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in container runtimes and Linux system programming
• Experience with build tools and CI/CD pipelines
• DevOps: Git, Docker, k8s, Terraform, baremetal
• Monitoring and alerting (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog)

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