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Engineering Lead – Multimodality, Research
Location
Europe
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Engineering Lead – Multimodality, Research
poolside
• Own Poolside's multimodality direction and capability adoption • Ship our first image-input capabilities • Chart and drive the path from adapter-based to native multimodality • Collaborate on custom evaluations and datasets for multimodal SWE capabilities • Run experiments end to end: hypothesis, implementation, training at scale, analysis • Partner with evals, architecture, data, and post-training teams to land multimodality in Poolside models
Job Requirements
- Experience in end-to-end training of production-grade VLMs
- Strong LLM training fundamentals: transformers and distributed training at scale
- Strong Python programming skills
- Pragmatic and high-ownership: you reach for the simplest thing that works and thrive in greenfield ambiguity
- Nice to have:*
- Leadership and 0-1 experience, especially with substantial breadth, ownership, and hands-on contributions
- Distinguished research background on VLMs or multimodal models
- Understanding of the challenges of native multimodality
- Experience building agentic computer use systems
Benefits
- Fully remote work & flexible hours
- 37 days/year of vacation & holidays
- Health insurance allowance for you & dependents
- 16 weeks of flexible, full-pay parental leave
- Well-being, always-be-learning & home office allowances
- Company-provided equipment
- Frequent team get togethers
- Diverse & inclusive people-first culture
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