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poolside · 2 months ago

Founding Forward Deployed Research Engineer (FDRE - Clearance)

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

Poolside is a company focused on creating Artificial General Intelligence and is seeking a Founding Forward Deployed Research Engineer. In this role, you will be embedded with customers to build real agentic systems that solve complex problems, working at the intersection of software engineering, applied AI, and product deployment.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Developer PlatformFoundational AIInformation TechnologyInfrastructureSoftware

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

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 systemsCloud & opsModel opsEvaluation & experimentationLearning-drivenProduct-mindedCommunicatorAdventurerExceptional collaboration

Required

US clearance

Exceptional, high-agency, low-ego

Learning-driven

Product-minded

Excellent communicator

Adventurer

Preferred

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