Lead Engineer, AI

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CircleAI software
Location: Poland Secondary Locations: Portugal Workplace: Remote, Collaborate across time zones; highly async.Full-TimeLead
SalaryAnnual cash compensation (USD), paid semi-monthly: $170K • Offers Equity
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Job Details

Languages
You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.
Experience
7+ years of experience building and shipping production software
Required Skills
PythonRuby on RailsCI/CD

Requirements

  • Have 7+ years of experience building and shipping production software.
  • Bring experience with production LLM-powered agents that take real actions in a product, ideally involving multiple tools, planning or orchestration, and sub-agents.
  • Be comfortable with Ruby on Rails and Python, or ready to pick them up quickly; Python proficiency is a strong plus.
  • Have experience building evaluation or observability infrastructure for ML/AI systems, such as evaluation pipelines, scorers, dashboards, or CI/CD for evaluations.
  • Have experience with evaluation frameworks such as Braintrust, LangSmith, or similar.
  • Have experience designing datasets, annotation workflows, or labeling pipelines for ML/AI evaluation.
  • Be comfortable running frequent experiments in a dynamic environment and learning new technologies as projects require.
  • Be proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at CEFR Level C2 or ILR Level 5.

Responsibilities

  • Build and own evaluation infrastructure, including CI/CD pipelines, scorers, and datasets for AI agents.
  • Trace failures across agent planning, execution, tool selection, and tool trajectories.
  • Prototype solutions to quality issues or identify priorities for AI Core engineering.
  • Create annotation workflows and AI-generated or simulated conversations to expand evaluation coverage.
  • Evaluate new and open-source models against the production baseline and build a framework for model-selection decisions.
  • Improve cost and latency through model swaps, caching, and routing by plan complexity.
  • Set technical direction and manage day-to-day priorities for the AI Quality engineering team while remaining hands-on.
  • Partner with AI Core engineers to assess whether product changes improve AI quality.
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