Head of Application Engineering

In this decade, the world will create Artificial General Intelligence. There will only be a small number of companies who will achieve this. Their ability to stack advantages and pull ahead will define the winners. These companies will move faster than anyone else. They will attract the world's most capable talent. They will be on the forefront of applied research, engineering, infrastructure and deployment at scale. They will continue to scale their training to larger & more capable models. They will be given the right to raise large amounts of capital along their journey to enable this. They will create powerful economic engines. They will obsess over the success of their users and customers.

poolside exists to be this company - to build a world where AI will be the engine behind economically valuable work and scientific progress.

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We are a remote-first team that sits across Europe and North America and comes together once a month in-person for 3 days and for longer offsites twice a year.

Our R&D and production teams are a combination of more research and more engineering-oriented profiles, however, everyone deeply cares about the quality of the systems we build and has a strong underlying knowledge of software development. We believe that good engineering leads to faster development iterations, which allows us to compound our efforts.

We are looking for a Head of Application Engineering to lead the Applications team. Reporting to the VP of Engineering, you will oversee and drive all user-facing applications of poolside. Today, these include a range of poolside Assistants deployed directly on the most popular IDEs. Soon, a product suite that allows engineers everywhere to manage and orchestrate their agents and workflows.

Pioneer the application layer that brings our foundation models to the world. You will build products that begin with revolutionizing software development—through developer tools and enterprise agent platforms—and later expand to all knowledge work done behind a computer. Your team will craft experiences that act as a multiplier for the capabilities of our foundation models, whether for a developer debugging code, an enterprise automating software engineering workflows, or for new use cases we haven’t imagined yet.

• Deliver the best applications for engineers across the globe

• Lead and manage a team of product engineers dedicated to the different applications

• Lead and execute the strategic direction you will set together with the VP of Engineering

• Implement and follow engineering best practices across the organisation

• Partner with product, design, other engineering teams and GTM to ensure alignment

• Drive technical excellence and scalability in our architecture and systems

• Hire, develop, and retain top engineering talent

• Monitor engineering performance through metrics and ensure continuous process improvement

• We care deeply about our team–previous experience managing and scaling (remote) engineering teams and driving delivery is key

• Experience building dev-first products and tools

• Strong technical background and ability to guide and advise on technical decisions for the team

• Strong people management skills, with experience coaching engineering teams (including IC’s, managers or leads)

• Excellent organizational and execution skills, with a track record of delivering on roadmap commitments

• Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-growth environments

• 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