AI Engineer

Circle AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Community-focused team

Office snacks and coffee

Opportunity for rapid impact on products

Job summary

A leading AI company in San Francisco is seeking an AI Engineer to build automation systems within insurance brokerages. The role entails full-stack development, including work on a Next.js dashboard and Node.js/Express API, as well as integrating with various AMS platforms. The perfect candidate should be proficient in TypeScript, React, and Python, with experience in distributed systems and API design. Applicants must be ready to collaborate closely with clients to streamline workflows and enhance efficiency.

Qualifications

• Production experience in handling systems with real traffic.
• Full-stack fluency across key technologies.
• Understanding of distributed systems, queues, and API design.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend the agent orchestration system.
• Develop full-stack features for the Next.js dashboard.
• Integrate with AMS platforms via APIs.

Skills

TypeScript

React/Next.js

Node.js

Python

Distributed systems

API design

Liberal Learning Models

Agent frameworks

Job description

Circle — "Circle picks up calls, sends emails, and fills portals while you close."

Why Circle?

Insurance runs on people doing heroic amounts of manual work. We're changing that.

At Circle, we're bringing the world's most advanced AI into insurance brokerages and automating 90% of the manual work that insurance brokers do—from the mind‑numbing, error‑prone steps to the multi‑system swivel‑chair tasks that slow everything down. The result: quotes go out faster, renewals run themselves, and producers get their day back.

We're a small, product‑obsessed team shipping fast with real customers. You'll work directly with the founders, own outcomes, and see your code move the industry forward in weeks—not quarters.

The Role

What You'll Do

• Build and extend our agent orchestration system (task queues, container management, state persistence)
• Ship full‑stack features across our Next.js dashboard and Node.js/Express API
• Integrate with AMS platforms (Vertafore, HawkSoft, Atlas) via SOAP/REST APIs
• Design reliable systems: retries, idempotency, observability, and graceful failure handling
• Collaborate directly with customers to understand workflows and translate them into automation

In Your First 30 Days, You Might

• Shadow producers and account managers, capture a high‑friction workflow, and ship a first pass that cuts cycle time by 30–50%
• Stand up metrics that let customers see time saved and errors avoided

What Will Make You Successful

• Production experience: You've shipped and maintained systems handling real traffic
• Full‑stack fluency: TypeScript, React/Next.js, Node.js, Python—you're comfortable across the stack
• Systems thinking: You understand distributed systems, queues, containers, and API design
• Pragmatic mindset: You ship incrementally, debug ruthlessly, and know when 'good enough' is right
• Experience with LLMs, agent frameworks, or AI application development
• Familiarity with insurance or other regulated industries

How We Work

• Small team, big ownership: You'll make architectural calls and set quality bars.
• Ship fast, then harden
• First demo in days, then productionize with reliability and observability.
• In‑Person in SF: We work 6 days a week in our SF office with coffee, snacks, and a great community.

Our Process

1. Founder intro (45m)
2. Technical deep dive (60m)
3. Co‑working session (2–3h) – Build a small automation against a mock portal

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