Member of Engineering (Pre-training)
Poolside
Location
Remote (EMEA/East Coast)
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Remote
Department
R&D
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
You would be working on our pre-training team focused on building out our distributed training of Large Language Models and major architecture changes. This is a hands-on role where you'll be both programming and implementing LLM architectures (dense & sparse) and distributed training code all the way from data to tensor parallelism, while researching potential optimizations (from basic operations to communication) and new architectures & distributed training strategies. You will have access to thousands of GPUs in this team.
YOUR MISSION
To train the best foundational models for source code generation in the world in minimum time and with maximum hardware utilization.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Follow the latest research on LLMs and source code generation. Propose and evaluate innovations, both in the quality and the efficiency of the training
Do LLM-Ops: babysitting and analyzing the experiments, iterating
Write high-quality Python, Cython, C/C++, Triton, CUDA code
Work in the team: plan future steps, discuss, and always stay in touch
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
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Experience with Large Language Models (LLM)
Deep knowledge of Transformers is a must
Knowledge/Experience with cutting-edge training tricks
Knowledge/Experience of distributed training
Trained LLMs from scratch
Coded LLMs from scratch
Knowledge of deep learning fundamentals
Strong machine learning and engineering background
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Research experience
Author of scientific papers on any of the topics: applied deep learning, LLMs, source code generation, etc. - is a nice to have
Can freely discuss the latest papers and descend to fine details
Is reasonably opinionated
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Programming experience
Linux
Strong algorithmic skills
Python with PyTorch or Jax
C/C++, CUDA, Triton
Use modern tools and are always looking to improve
Strong critical thinking and ability to question code quality policies when applicable
Prior experience in non-ML programming, especially not in Python - is a nice to have
PROCESS
Intro call with one of our Founding Engineers
Technical Interview(s) with one of our Founding Engineers
Team fit call with the People team
Final interview with one of our Founding Engineers
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