AI Applied Scientist, Circle
Digital dollars for global prosperity
Posted today
Digital dollars for global prosperity
1001+ employees
Posted today
1001+ employees
Company mission
To raise global economic prosperity through the frictionless exchange of value.
Role
Who you are
- This position is open to applicants of all levels; we will determine your level based on your interviewing performance but are unlikely to consider anyone below a Senior level without extraordinary achievements
- Significant comfort with AI and machine learning
- You should have a background in machine learning or a strong demonstrated understanding of techniques in it
- You should also be knowledgeable of the modern state of AI usage and comfortable with emerging technologies that work on top of LLMs, like MCP and A2A. The AI ecosystem moves very fast and you should be comfortable continuously investigating and adopting bleeding-edge technologies
- Strong ability in Python and common machine learning libraries in it (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.), as well as knowledge of or an ability to pick up other languages like Javascript/Node.JS/Typescript, Java, and Go
- Research experience in AI or machine learning, or experience building products based on it
- Experience with cryptocurrency, blockchains, and smart contracts is a strong plus but not a requirement
- Comfort with AI-assisted programming is a plus, but you must also be comfortable going without it. Knowledge of building AI-assisted programming agents is a strong plus
- Excellent communication skills allowing you to present complex technical topics at a tenor appropriate to technical and non-technical audiences
- Ability to collaborate with remote teams, share ideas, and present concepts effectively
- Self-direction and the discipline to identify and achieve clear deliverables even when working on speculative research projects
- Desire to explore the intersection of AI and crypto
What the job involves
- The AI Applied Scientist is responsible for imagining and building new AI systems that advance Circle's cryptocurrency products
- A particular focus will be finding ways to leverage the power of AI while ensuring against mistakes in an environment (cryptocurrency) that is unforgiving of them
- You will also serve as a resource for the engineering organization and Circle's employees as a whole on advanced facets of AI usage and recent industry advances
- This is an applied scientist position
- Taking a vague mandate or idea
- Investigating whether it makes sense to continue further
- Partnering with cross-functional personnel such as product managers to define and build a prototype
- You are not expected to write production-ready code on your own
- You are expected to partner with software engineers to bring successful prototypes to production
- You should be very comfortable with the mechanics of AI and machine learning, including:
- Building your own reinforcement learning fine-tuning system for a model (not just submitting a dataset to the OpenAI fine-tuning endpoint)
- An intuitive understanding of which tasks LLMs are likely to perform well or poorly at
- Awareness of the modern state of the AI industry
- More broadly, you should be excited to:
- Take research ideas at the intersection of AI and cryptocurrency,
- Explore and build based on those ideas
Our take
Circle is a financial technology firm looking to enable businesses to harness the power of digital currencies and public blockchains for payments, commerce, and financial applications. The company’s USD Coin (USDC) has become the fastest growing, regulated, and fully reserved dollar digital currency.
The company is backed by BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, and crypto exchange company Coinbase. It has been proactively preparing for possible upcoming federal regulations. With USDC circulation doubling over the last year to $60 billion, Circle is well-placed to see steady long-term growth.
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Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2022
$400m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
May 2021
$440m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- We offer flexible paid time off — so you can thrive at work, and at rest
- No matter where you live, we offer a market competitive suite of health benefits to help keep you and your loved ones safe
- Work Remotely: Do your best work from home. With a company laptop, stipend for business equipment, and access to WeWork locations, Circle remote jobs empower our employees to do their best work.
- All U.S. employees enjoy 401(k) benefits with company matching, and can become owners in Circle through our equity program
Company values
- Multistakeholder - We must organize, incentivize and measure ourselves against meeting the needs of all of our stakeholders
- Mindful - We seek to be present and aware, to be respectful, active listeners (with each other and with our customers alike), and pay attention to detail
- Driven by Excellence - We relentlessly pursue excellence, we do not tolerate mediocrity, we reward based on merit, and we work intensely to achieve our goals
- High Integrity - We seek open and honest communication, and hold ourselves to very high moral and ethical standards
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Jeremy Allaire
(CEO)Founder & former Chairman and CEO of Brightcove. Former Entrepreneur in Residence at General Catalyst Partners, CTO of Macromedia, and Co-Founder & former CTO of Allaire Corporation.
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