Staff ML Engineer: Document Understanding & Production

Circuit; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and profit sharing

Employer-paid benefits

Flexible PTO

Access to latest AI tools

Job summary

Circuit is hiring a Staff Engineer, Core ML to own ML capabilities at the center of our product. You will turn complex technical documents (blueprints, CAD, PDFs) into structured data and build the tools that empower our long-running agents.

You will improve model and agent performance, evaluate new approaches, and drive production-ready solutions. You will work with a team of engineers and ML researchers, mentoring others and shaping the next generation of industrial AI capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping ML-powered software to production.
• Ability to evaluate alternatives from other production ML systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop algorithms to extract meaning from complex technical documents (text, vector geometry, CAD, raster content).
• Integrate document understanding capabilities into the tools powering Circuit's long-running agent systems.
• Improve reliability and determinism of agent planning, tool use, and failure recovery.

Skills

Agent harness design

Document extraction

High-resolution vision

Retrieval systems

Python / ML frameworks

Go

Tools

Langfuse

Opik

Go

Job description

Circuit is hiring a Staff Engineer, Core ML to own ML capabilities at the center of our product. You will turn complex technical documents (blueprints, CAD, PDFs) into structured data and build the tools that empower our long-running agents.

You will improve model and agent performance, evaluate new approaches, and drive production-ready solutions. You will work with a team of engineers and ML researchers, mentoring others and shaping the next generation of industrial AI capabilities.