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Member of Engineering (Multimodality - Research Lead)

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2 months ago
Remote, EMEAStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Own Poolside’s multimodality direction and capability adoption.
  • Build and ship initial image-input capabilities for frontier coding models.
  • Drive the transition from adapter-based approaches to native multimodality.
  • Develop custom evaluations and datasets for multimodal software engineering capabilities.
  • Run end-to-end experiments spanning hypothesis formation, implementation, training at scale, and analysis.
  • Partner with evaluation, architecture, data, and post-training teams to integrate multimodality into Poolside models.
  • Build a new multimodality team and provide technical direction.

Requirements

  • Experience with end-to-end training of production-grade vision-language models.
  • Strong fundamentals in large language model training, transformers, and distributed training at scale.
  • Strong Python programming skills.
  • Pragmatic, high-ownership approach and comfort working in greenfield ambiguity.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work with flexible hours.
  • 37 days per year of vacation and holidays.
  • Health insurance allowance for the employee and dependents.
  • 16 weeks of flexible, fully paid parental leave.
  • Well-being, continuous-learning, and home-office allowances.
  • Company-provided equipment.
  • Frequent team get-togethers and a diverse, inclusive, people-first culture.

Tech Stack

Categories

AI ResearchML Engineering
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201-500 employees
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