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

• 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
• 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
• 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 Eiso, our CTO & Co-Founder

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

San Jose, CA, USA

Adobe is looking for a Senior Applied Researcher to use Generative AI and Machine Learning techniques to help Adobe better understand, lead, and optimize the experience of Adobe’s Digital Experience customers. Partnering with Adobe Research and other business units, the candidate will be building products that transform the way companies approach audience creation, journey optimization, and personalization at scale. You will join a diverse, lively group of engineers and scientists long established in the ML space. The work is dynamic, fast-paced, creative, collaborative and data-driven.

NOTE: This role is in the San Jose office. You must be in SJ or willing to relocate for this position.

What you'll do - Partner with Adobe Research to develop cutting edge models! - Design and build applications powered by generative AI, including working on traditional engineering problems such as defining APIs, integrating with UIs, deploying Cloud services, CICD, etc., as well as implementing ML- and LLM-Ops best practices.
- Engage in the product lifecycle, design, deployment, and production operations. - Provide technical leadership in everything from architectural design and technology choices to holistic evaluation of ML models.

What you need to succeed - The ideal candidate will have the following background: - PhD or MS degree in Computer Science, Data Science or related field required.
- 10+ years of applied research experience in software industry/academic research with 5+ years of shown experience developing, evaluating ML models, and deploying models into production. - Deep understanding of statistical modeling, machine learning, or analytics concepts, and a track record of solving problems with these methods; ability to quickly learn new skills and work in a fast-paced team. - Proficient in one or more programming languages such as Python, Scala, Java, SQL. Familiarity with cloud development on Azure/AWS. - Fluent in at least one deep learning framework such as TensorFlow or PyTorch. - Experience with LLMs and emerging area of prompt-engineering. - Recognized as a technical leader in related domain.
- Experience working with both research and product teams.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytic skills - Excellent communication and relationship building skills.

Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Mayo Clinic seeks a highly motivated individual to advance the development, validation, and real-world implementation of generative AI systems for clinical decision support in Gastroenterology and Hepatology. This role bridges research and translation into clinical workflows, focusing on building trustworthy AI systems that augment human presence and put the needs of the patient first. Research Fellows will work within a multidisciplinary team of data scientists, physicians, and engineers to design novel generative agentic architectures, develop useful benchmarks, and work together with clinical teams to decrease time to diagnosis and time to treatment. Contact shung.dennis@mayo.edu if interested.

Location USA, MA, North Reading

Description Amazon is looking for talented Postdoctoral Scientists to join the Research and AI Development team at Amazon Robotics for a one-year, full-time research position. This Postdoctoral Scientist will innovate in the areas of multi-agent planning and reinforcement learning for robotic systems. They will have the opportunity to address challenges related to the control and optimization of the world’s largest fleet of mobile robots under uncertainty, including policy learning for resource management in robotic storage systems.

At Amazon, we experiment and innovate relentlessly. Science is core in our offering to shoppers, advertisers and customers. Our scientists apply machine learning, optimization, causal modeling and game theory at scale to enhance the customer experience, help advertisers reach relevant audiences, and support brand building. We are seeking talented scientists to invent cutting-edge techniques in a variety of areas and innovate on behalf of shoppers, advertisers, and customers.

Palo Alto

Our formula for success is to hire exceptional people, encourage their ideas and reward their results.

As an AI Researcher, you will be an integral member of a team of experienced technologists, researchers, quants and traders. You will collaborate closely with two other researchers to solve challenging AI and machine learning problems. Your projects will vary depending on priorities at the start of your employment and could include AI for time series modeling, or developing large language models (LLMs). We are looking for individuals eager to learn new AI technologies, create innovative solutions, and choose the right tools to directly impact our business. You will be surrounded by cutting-edge technology, given immediate responsibility, mentored by industry-leading experts, and attend a robust training program to ensure your success at DRW.

How you will make an impact... Algorithm Development: Creating and testing new AI models and algorithms to solve specific problems or improve existing methods. Data Engineering: Building data pipelines for model training and evaluation, including data collection, cleaning, preprocessing, and labeling, while contributing to better data management practices. Model Testing & Evaluation: Designing and implementing rigorous testing frameworks to assess model performance and identify areas for improvement. Collaboration: Working closely with team members to establish and refine research methodologies, promoting peer reviews, testing, and thorough documentation. Research & Learning: Staying updated on the latest AI techniques and advancements, sharing insights, and actively bringing improvements to research processes.

You will be right at home if you have… A PhD in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer science, or a related field graduating between December 2025 and June 2026. Strong foundation in AI concepts. Strong knowledge of machine learning. Solid technical and programming skills (Python, Java, GitHub). Familiarity with machine learning framework (Spark, PyTorch, etc.). Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. Deep interest in financial markets. Experience with NLP tasks Knowledge of TensorFlow or PyTorch. Basic understanding of MLOps principles (monitoring, versioning, model serving).

Learning Opportunities: Gain in-depth experience with cutting-edgeML/AI techniques and model deployment. Develop robust machine learning research skills, from data engineering to model evaluation, while contributing to advancements in AI methodologies and practices. Contribute to research projects with potential impact on financial decision-making and other applied domains. Engage in fostering a collaborative research culture, driving improvements in research quality, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

The annual base salary range for this position is $175,000 to $200,000 depending on the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set. The position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition, DRW offers a comprehensive suite of employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k (with discretionary employer match), short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts.

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ABOUT THE ROLE

You’ll join our Applied Research Engineering group to help build poolside’s coding agents. Your work will center on building the core agent framework, the supporting tools, and the orchestration environment needed to run coding agents securely, reliably, and at scale.

We’re looking for strong software engineers with a passion for building reliable, high-performance systems. Experience (or strong interest) in AI coding agents is a significant plus.

In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with our product engineering and research teams to continuously build and improve our platform for coding agents.

YOUR MISSION

Help us design and deliver the most capable AI agents for software engineering tasks, pushing the boundaries of what AI agents can do.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, build, and maintain the core framework for poolside’s coding agents
• Develop scalable, secure, and isolated environments to run agents in complex enterprise environments
• Collaborate with research and product teams to prototype, develop, and evaluate new agent capabilities
• Continuously improve the performance, reliability, and developer experience of our platform

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• Solid understanding of AI agents, or a strong interest in developing expertise in this area
• Strong programming skills in either Go, C, C++ or Python (we are open to polyglot engineers from other languages)
• Plus: Experience in large scale, distributed data systems
• Plus: Familiarity with container runtimes, microVMs, or sandboxing systems

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

Work Location:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Description

We are currently seeking talented individuals for a variety of positions, ranging from junior to senior levels, and will evaluate your application in its entirety.

Layer 6 is the AI research centre of excellence for TD Bank Group. We develop and deploy industry-leading machine learning systems that impact the lives of over 27 million customers, helping more people achieve their financial goals and needs. Our research broadly spans the field of machine learning with areas such as deep learning and generative AI, time series forecasting and responsible use of AI. We have access to massive financial datasets and actively collaborate with world renowned academic faculty.

We are always looking for people driven to be at the cutting edge of machine learning in research, engineering, and impactful applications.

As a Research Machine Learning Scientist, you will

• Join a world-class team of machine learning researchers with an extensive track record in both academia and industry.

• Research, develop, and apply new techniques in deep learning to advance our industry leading products.

• Work with large-scale, real-world datasets that range from banking transactions, to large document collections.

• Collaborate closely with our engineering team in a fast-paced startup environment and see your research deployed in production with very short turnaround.

Required Qualifications:

• PhD or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field

• Strong background in machine learning and deep learning

• 2+ years of research experience with publication record

• Proven track record of applying machine learning to solve real-world problems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Depth of experience in relevant ML research disciplines

• Hands on experience in software systems development

• Experience with one or more of Pytorch, Tensorflow, Jax, or comparable library

• Experience with Spark, SQL, or comparable database systems

• Experience using GPUs for accelerated deep learning training

• Familiarity with cloud computing systems like Azure or AWS

About Kumo.ai

Kumo.ai is redefining enterprise AI with foundation models for relational data, enabling organizations to predict, optimize, and act with speed and confidence.
Our mission is simple yet ambitious: make the world’s most important data also its most useful.

At Kumo, we are committed to building cutting-edge products that are also intuitive and easy to use. Our work blends deep technical innovation with thoughtful user-centric design.

Our Culture

We foster an inclusive, collaborative culture where every individual contributes to our shared mission.
We value:

• Diversity of thought
• Open and transparent communication
• Working together to solve meaningful problems
• Serving our customers with excellence
• Building a supportive and thriving community

We’re Hiring

We are looking for ML/AI Engineers with experience in one or more of the following:

• Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)
• Graph Transformers
• Agentic Frameworks
• Applied Machine Learning

If you're excited about building the next generation of AI for relational data, we’d love to talk.

Palo Alto, CA

Position Description: Tesla is looking for strong Machine Learning Engineers to help build foundation models for robotics to drive the future of autonomy across all current and future generations of vehicles. You will work on a lean team without boundaries and have access to one of the world’s largest training clusters. Most importantly, you will see your work repeatedly shipped to and utilized by millions of Tesla’s customers.

Responsibilities: Leverage millions of miles of driving data and interventions to build a robust and scalable end-to-end learning based self-driving system Use cutting-edge techniques from generative modeling, imitation learning, and reinforcement learning to improve the planning and reasoning capabilities of our driving models Experiment with data generation and fleet data collection approaches to enhance the diversity and quality of training data Integrate directly with vehicle firmware and ship production quality, safety-critical software to the entirety of Tesla's vehicle fleet

Requirements: Strong experience with Python, any major deep learning framework, and software engineering best practices An "under the hood" knowledge of deep learning modern architectures, optimization, model alignment, etc. Proven expertise in deploying production ML models for self-driving, robotics, or natural language processing at scale Comfort with C++ to help integrate with vehicle firmware and take projects from ideas to shipped products

Shanghai

Our Research Summer Internship program will give you real insights into how data and research is used to improve global financial markets. Expand your knowledge of the financial markets and solve challenging problems that could impact the way we trade. Plus, if you’ve excelled over the summer and shown us your potential, you could receive an offer to join us as a graduate quantitative researcher. With Optiver’s internship program, your work improving the market starts today.

Who we are: Optiver is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with offices in London, Chicago, Austin, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei and Mumbai. Established in 1986, today we are a leading liquidity provider, with close to 2,000 employees in offices around the world, united in our commitment to improve the market through competitive pricing, execution and risk management. By providing liquidity on multiple exchanges across the world in various financial instruments we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets. We provide liquidity to financial markets using our own capital, at our own risk, trading a wide range of products: listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign currencies.

What you’ll do: As a Quantitative Research Intern, you’ll work with our researchers and traders on real-life research projects, that directly impact the way we trade. Our quantitative researchers are responsible for the accuracy of our core pricing models. They work closely with our traders to analyse and improve all facets of our trading strategies. As part of the internship, you’ll get to: • Perform extensive analysis in order to implement new algorithms that support and improve our existing models. • Develop risk management and portfolio optimisation tools to improve our execution algorithm. • Work with petabytes of low latency, high-frequency market data sets. • Collaborate with our developers to test and drive changes to our trading system, that will improve our ability to make successful trades. • Keep up to date on the latest development of new models and technologies • No previous experience in trading or financial markets? You bring the passion and we’ll have the training to support you along the way

Who you are: • PhD student, who will graduate during 2028. • Major in a highly quantitative field. • Strong knowledge of probability and statistics, experience in machine learning and time-series analysis is a big plus. • Programming experience in any language (C, C++, Python, JAVA, etc.), ideally with a preference towards Python. • Ability to carry a project on your own in a structured way within a short timeframe. • Experience in working with large datasets. • Both a self-motivated contributor and a team player, with an entrepreneurial attitude and hunger for success. • Interest in the trading/quantitative finance industry.

What you’ll get: • The chance to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment. • Competitive remuneration, including an attractive bonus structure and additional leave entitlements. • Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities. • Daily breakfast, lunch and snacks. • Gym membership, sports and leisure activities, plus weekly in-house chair massages. • Regular social events, clubs and Friday afternoon drinks.

How to apply: If you’re interested in taking your career to the next level and work on one of the most exciting trading floors in China mainland, apply now via the form below. While we love how bilingual our teams are, be sure to submit the below application materials in English: • Resume • Academic transcripts, including Bachelors and Masters and PhD if any

For any other inquiries, please email chinacareers@optiver.com.au.