VP of Engineering
Full-time and Remote (EMEA/East Coast)
ABOUT POOLSIDE
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.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
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.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As poolside’s VP of Engineering, you will be responsible for all things in our engineering roadmap, building a high-performance culture, and ensuring scalability across multiple teams and company priorities. You will oversee multiple engineering teams, partner closely with product and GTM, and be the ultimate delivery owner. You will also travel significantly between the US and Europe.
YOUR MISSION
Build and scale a world-class engineering organization that takes AI from a developer tool to a universal platform for human knowledge work. Starting with developer tools and multi-agent systems for the enterprise, you will drive the technical foundation that expands into broader AI applications across new verticals and consumer experiences. Your success will be measured by our ability to ship products that scale from IDE assistants today to enterprise agent orchestration to eventually powering AI experiences that transform how all knowledge work gets done—maintaining startup velocity while building the infrastructure for a generational AI company.
Delivery, delivery and delivery. Today we work with large defense contractors and the public sector, tomorrow with enterprise at large and directly with developers. We’re building products and systems to be used by millions and joining this early on will offer the chance to see it all from the beginning.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Define and drive the overall engineering vision, strategy, and organizational structure
Lead, mentor, and scale a team of engineering leaders, including Heads of Engineering and Engineering Managers
Partner with Product, GTM, and other teams to drive alignment and efficiency
Set the standard for delivery and drive across the engineering organisation
Own engineering budgets, headcount planning, and resource allocation
Represent engineering at the leadership level, communicating progress and challenges effectively
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Experience in engineering leadership roles, having witnessed and managed hypergrowth
Proven track record of scaling engineering teams and leading managers and leaders
Experience building developer tools, agents or products that might be relevant to poolside’s context
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
Data Retention
Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, as required to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, or as necessary to resolve disputes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider our statutory obligations, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes we process your personal data for, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means. We specify the retention periods for your personal data in our data retention policy. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent. If you are offered and accept employment with poolside, the personal data we collected during the application and recruitment process will become part of your employment record, and we may use it in connection with your employment consistent with our employee personal data policies. If you do not become an employee, or, once you are no longer an employee of poolside, we will retain and securely destroy your personal data in accordance with our document retention policy and applicable laws and regulations.
Rights of Access, Correction, Erasure and Objection
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during the recruitment process. By law you may have the right to request access to, correct, and erase the personal data that we hold about you, or object to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. You may also have the right to request that we transfer your personal data to another party. If you want to review, verify, correct, or request erasure of your personal data, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal data to another party, please contact us at legal@poolside.ai . Any such communication must be in writing. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access, and to provide you with the personal data that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all of the personal data that we hold about you, or we may have destroyed, erased, or anonymized your personal data in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal data, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
Right to Withdraw Consent
Where you have provided your consent to the collection, processing, and transfer of your personal data, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, contact us at legal@poolside.ai
Changes to this Privacy Notice
We reserve the right to update this Privacy Notice at any time, and we will provide you with a new Privacy Notice when we make any updates. If we would like to use your previously collected personal data for different purposes than those we notified you about at the time of collection, we will provide you with notice and, where required by law, seek your consent, before using your personal data for a new or unrelated purpose. We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent only where required by applicable law or regulation.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our processing of your personal data or would like to make an access or other request, please contact us at legal@poolside.ai