What you will find

As our lead ML Engineer / Data Scientist in the CircleCI Developer Experience team, you will not only revolutionize the way developers code, but you will specifically deep dive into the mechanics of the different programming languages. You will have to be creative and meet many challenges along with the team.

Tech challenges:

• How to build great code parsing and understanding systems
• How to implement efficient code representation
• How to invent and implement scalable code generation systems
• How to implement language / frameworks agnostic solutions
• How to create multi-language and multi-framework compatible solutions
• How to build multi-IDEs compatible extensions / plugins
• How to parse large amounts of code with awesome performances
• How to implement algorithms that are able to understand and generate code

Product and strategy challenges:

• How to shape data and ML solutions that can bring value to Circleci customers
• How to Invent and implement user-centric AI / ML solutions (i.e. solutions that bring value to the user)
• How to leverage human interaction to improve AI / ML solutions
• How to have a great User-Experience with our AI / ML assistant (suggestions,…)
• How to leverage ML to enhance local development tooling
• How to think out-of-the-box to invent the development tools that will be used by all developers and last over the coming 10(000) years?
• How to shape a Product strategy based on the market trends, the developers feedbacks and our deep convictions as engineers and users?

People and organization challenges:

• How to grow and scale the team so that everyone is happy and great products are delivered?
• How to attract and keep great talents?
• How to evolve in an agile and lean way while adapting to the requirements of an international fast-growing company?

What we are looking for in you

This is a full-time role at E4 Level which includes Management responsibilities.

Overall, here are the skills we expect from you:

Soft-Skills

• You are collaborative, open-minded, and looking to continue to develop your craft
• You are results oriented. You don’t consider your work or the work of your team to be done before it reaches the target that has been defined. You do whatever is required and take all the initiatives to reach this target
• You’re both a pragmatic and innovative person. You’re not afraid to think out of the box, while you always choose fast-result way

Product Oriented Data Strategy Management (Mandatory)

• You are curious about code quality
• You have a good product sensitivity. Our features are targeting developers, the tech team is expected to have a great impact on product decisions
• You are user centric and want every minute you spend at work to be of benefit to our users
• You are able to build and drive a Data strategy to reach a Product Goal
• You are able to formalize documents that can be shared at Circleci Exec-Team / Board level to convince about Data strategy

AI / ML solutions development (Mandatory)

• You have good fundamentals in Applied Mathematics (ML, statistics, graph theory)
• You are able to write production ready code (we use primarily Python, Typescript, and some Go). You are proud of the code you pro=duce; you do your best to apply clean code guidelines: it’s obvious, concise, tested and self-understandable / documented. Your mantra is to leave the code better than you found it
• You have MLOps and Cloud knowledge (Nice to have)

Leadership and People Management (Mandatory)

• You’re experienced at pairing and mentoring
• You have a leadership mindset. You inspire people who work with you and you are able to build a strong team spirit
• You love helping people in your team grow and improve.
• You are able to put in place the adequate process to have an efficient delivery in your team

• 30min phone screen with Baptiste (Software Engineering Manager)
• Homework technical project (~3h)
• A visit to our offices (Rue du Louvre, Paris) for:
• Technical review with one of Ponicode’s data scientists
• Cultural fit interview with a member of our team
• Lunch with the dream team
• Final interview with Patrick (Head of Developer Experience Circleci)