Forward Deployed Engineer

Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the worlds leading internet financial platform companies building the foundation of a more open global economy through digital assets payment applications and programmable blockchain infrastructure. Circles platform includes the worlds largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC Circle Payments Network for global money movement and Arc an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet. Enterprises financial institutions and developers use Circle to power trusted internet-scale financial innovation. Learn more at .

What youll be part of:

Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do. As we grow as an organization were expanding into some of the worlds 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. We have built a flexible work environment where new ideas are encouraged and everyone is a stakeholder.

Circle is building the worlds leading digital currency and payments infrastructure. The AI Strategy & Transformation Team is a small high-impact tiger team responsible for proving and scaling agentic systems that materially change how the company operates.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer you will serve as a builder translator and change agent. You will work directly with the Director of AI Strategy & Transformation and embed with internal teams to identify bottlenecks imagine parallel AI-powered systems and turn those ideas into working agentic systems that deliver real business impact.

This is an experimental action-oriented role for someone who enjoys ambiguity moves quickly from idea to prototype and has the judgment and communication skills to bring stakeholders along.

What You Will Do

• 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.

• Capture what works and turn it into reusable patterns playbooks templates and internal tooling.

• Surface insights from field work to inform broader AI strategy product direction and organizational design.

• Model strong engineering hygiene: documentation versioning monitoring and continuous iteration.
  

What Success Looks Like (First 612 Months)

• Multiple teams adopt agentic workflows that materially reduce time-to-outcome or operational burden.

• Stakeholders begin to rethink their processes and organizational design based on what youve built.

• Teams can safely iterate on agentic systems using your playbooks tools and guidance.

• Proven patterns accelerate new deployments across the company.
  

Who You Are

• You have a bias toward action: youd rather build test and learn than wait for perfect clarity.

• You enjoy being a fresh set of eyes inside complex organizations and questioning the way weve always done it.

• Youre comfortable working with non-technical partners who may be cautious or less knowledgeable about AI and know how to meet them where they are.

• You balance creativity and pragmatism: bold ideas grounded execution.

• You take ownership from first sketch to real-world impact.
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors 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.

• Clear empathetic communicator with both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Demonstrated ownership and follow-through.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to evaluation experimentation or quality measurement for AI systems.

• Experience building internal tools workflows or automations for business teams.

• Interest in teaching enablement or documentation as a force multiplier.

Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future with transparency at our core. 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. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire. Additionally Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations as required by law.

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