Lead Engineer, Applied AI

The Applied AI team at Circle is at the forefront of leveraging AI to drive innovation across our company. We're looking for a Lead Engineer, Applied AI to spearhead the development of AI solutions that enhance user experiences across our platform, both internally and externally. You'll also lead and manage the Applied AI engineering team, help organize & coordinate work, and serve as a people manager. If you're passionate about working on real production use cases of large language models (LLMs) and want to contribute to transformative AI applications, this role is for you. What you'll be doing: - Ship full-stack AI projects end to end - exciting projects such as AI Agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Structured Extraction, internal tooling for customer-facing teams, and build infrastructure for LLM inference. - Own the end-to-end architecture and technical strategy for AI solutions. - Hire, onboard, and lead a small team of senior engineers, supporting their growth and ensuring high-impact execution. - Improve processes, tools, and systems to scale AI solutions across Circle. - Optimize AI infrastructure for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency. - Help us stay up-to-date with the cutting-edge AI research, techniques, and tools.

Circle is building the world's leading all-in-one platform for online communities. We make it possible for creators, coaches, educators, and businesses to bring together their audience with engaging discussions, live streams, events, chat, courses, and payments — all in one place, all under their own brand. We're proud to be a fully remote company of around 180 (and growing!) team members from 30+ countries around the world. We seek exceptional individuals around the world, set them up to do the best work of their lives, and in turn, create a meaningful impact in their own lives. We don't track hours, but we do manage for high expectations very closely. We collaborate across time zones, are highly async, and like to document a lot. Twice a year, we bring the whole company together in beautiful places around the world for our company offsites. So far, we've hosted offsites in Turkey, Portugal, Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Italy, Ireland, and more, with still more to come!