Circle
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco - remote first in US
Sponsorship not specified$100k-$140kDetected 31 days ago
LLMsAgentic AIA/B TestingSketchCommunication
About the role
- Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation.
- As we grow as an organization, we're expanding into some of the world's strongest jurisdictions.
- Speed and efficiency are motivators for our success and our employees live by our company values: High Integrity, Future Forward, Multistakeholder, Mindful, and Driven by Excellence.
Responsibilities
- Partner with internal functional leaders and subject matter expects to identify high-friction processes and high-value opportunities to redesign how work gets done using AI.
- Rapidly prototype, ship, and iterate agent workflows that drive measurable improvements in speed, quality, or efficiency.
- Build trust with non-technical stakeholders through clear communication, demos, and practical enablement.
- Design and maintain evaluation and feedback loops (e.g., LangChain-based evals) to assess quality, reliability, and safety.
- Surface insights from field work to inform broader AI strategy, product direction, and organizational design.
- Stakeholders begin to rethink their processes and organizational design based on what you've built.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
- Strong software fundamentals and ability to ship production-quality code.
- Experience with LLM tooling or agent frameworks
- Comfort operating in ambiguous problem spaces and defining the problem as you go.
- You enjoy being a fresh set of eyes inside complex organizations and questioning "the way we've always done it."
- Additionally, Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.
Nice to have
- Exposure to evaluation, experimentation, or quality measurement for AI systems.
- Interest in teaching, enablement, or documentation as a force multiplier.
- We consider a wide variety of elements when crafting our compensation ranges and total compensation packages.
- Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs.
Skills
- Multiple teams adopt agentic workflows that materially reduce time-to-outcome or operational burden.
- Teams can safely iterate on agentic systems using your playbooks, tools, and guidance.
- Proven patterns accelerate new deployments across the company.
- relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs.
- Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.
Compensation
- $100,000 - $140,000
Benefits
- Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support.
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer.
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