CircleCI Associate Rotation Program (CARP) — Cohort 2

Ship Smarter. Build Faster. Join the team that makes AI-written code actually work.

AI is writing code. A lot of it. But generating code and shipping reliable software are two very different things, and that gap is exactly where CircleCI lives. We're the CI/CD backbone that ensures AI-generated code gets tested, validated, and deployed safely at scale. If you want to build critical infrastructure at the intersection of AI and DevOps, you've found your people.

What is CARP?

The CircleCI Associate Rotation Program is a 12-month, 2-rotation deep-dive into engineering at a company where AI isn't a buzzword…it's the job! You'll rotate through real teams, own real work, and build real things that engineers at companies like yours use every single day. No coffee runs. No shadowing. Actual building.

You’re not just a builder, you’re an advocate. The future of work includes not just the ability to build alongside AI, but speak to the future among your peers and customers. Your work doesn’t end with your deliverable, it continues with your own feature, data, or product communication and advocacy!

12 months · 2 rotations · 1 career-defining move

Real Work. Real Impact.

Don't take our word for it — here's what Cohort 1 actually shipped:

• GTM & Customer Success: Built an AI enablement framework adopted by our Customer Success org, led cross-functional data alignment sessions at GTM events, and contributed directly to the FY26 account accuracy used by the Sales team.
• Product Engineering: Shipped a customer-facing credit comparison tool — available to users across all plans — that surfaces spending trends across billing periods. Real customers, real usage, from day one.
• Platform Engineering: Defined how CircleCI natively manages iOS code signing certificates, partnering across Engineering, Design, and Product to scope and deliver a foundational capability for mobile CI customers.
• Data & ML Engineering: Built a more reliable AI/ML signal flag that's now driving smarter customer engagement decisions and informing product roadmap prioritization across the org.
• Product Engineering: Shipped production features end-to-end — from implementing nav bar updates to building an entirely new CLI tool (Chunk CLI) that customers use in their workflows today.
• Revenue & Sales Ops: Analyzed historical lost deal data and built an AI-powered pipeline hygiene report that helps sales reps prioritize the deals most likely to convert — from raw data to a tool the Revenue team relies on.

You're the one if...

• You think of AI as a collaborator, not a threat
• You thrive in ambiguity and you see an unclear problem and think "ooh, interesting" not "I'll wait for instructions"
• You move fast, iterate faster, and ask for forgiveness over permission
• You have strong opinions, loosely held and you can defend your ideas in a room full of sharp engineers
• You're a recent grad ready to define what software development looks like in the AI era
• You genuinely love building things and want to see your work used in production, not a slide deck

The Engineering Track

This cohort is built for engineers. You'll rotate across our core technical teams, the folks keeping millions of builds humming and building the AI-native features that are changing how developers work. Here's what your rotation menu looks like:

🏗 Platform Engineering The foundation everything else runs on. You'll work on the systems that handle millions of AI-generated commits at a scale most engineers never get to touch.

• Design and build infrastructure that validates AI-written code at machine speed
• Work on intelligent resource allocation that adapts dynamically to AI workload patterns
• Help make sub-second response times the norm, not the goal
• Debug problems that literally no textbook covers yet

⚙️ Product Engineering Where the user-facing magic gets made. You'll build features that developers interact with every day, powered by AI, designed for speed.

• Build AI-powered features that predict build failures before they blow up
• Create natural language interfaces so developers can configure pipelines through conversation
• Ship seamless integrations with AI coding assistants like Cursor, Copilot, and Claude
• Turn vague product ideas into shipped code fast

📊 Data & ML Engineering Billions of build events. Real-time. You'll build the data systems that surface the insights our customers and product teams can't live without.

• Build pipelines processing billions of AI-generated build events in real time
• Develop ML models that identify patterns in how AI agents write, test, and break code
• Create analytics products that help customers understand their AI-augmented dev velocity
• Turn raw signal into decisions that actually move the needle

We Take AI Fluency Seriously

Not "have you used ChatGPT" seriously. We're talking about engineers who understand AI as a development paradigm, not just a productivity shortcut. Here's what being AI-fluent looks like at CircleCI:

• Use AI tools natively in your workflow — You prompt, iterate, and ship with AI assistance as a default, not an afterthought
• Understand the limitations — You know when AI-generated code needs extra scrutiny and why that matters at scale
• Think about AI as a system actor — You can reason about autonomous agents interacting with DevOps infrastructure
• Stay curious about what's next — The AI landscape changes weekly — you're keeping up, not catching up

What You Get

The Money & Gear

• $105,000 salary
• MacBook Pro + full tech stack access
• Latest AI tool subscriptions, including Cursor, Claude, and whatever comes out next that's worth it
• Health, dental, vision, unlimited PTO, wellness perks

The Growth

• Production AI/ML systems experience (not toy projects, real scale)
• Mentorship from engineers who've been building in this space before it was cool
• A network inside the AI + DevOps ecosystem that will follow you everywhere
• A genuine shot at a full-time role after your rotations wrap up

FAQs

Can I extend my rotation? Yes! During your second rotation, we'll explore whether additional 6-month rotation opportunities make sense for you and the team.

Is there a path to full-time? Absolutely. Based on your contributions and growth, we actively discuss full-time indefinite placement. We want to keep people who want to stay.

Do I have to be in San Francisco? Yes — this is an in-person role. You'll be in our SF headquarters at least Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday each week. We believe in the energy of working alongside your team, especially early in your career.

Ready?

By 2030, most code will be AI-generated. The question is who ensures it actually works. That's us. Come build it with us.

Program Dates: August 3, 2026 - July 30, 2027 

Location: San Francisco, CA (in-person; AI still needs humans nearby) 

Application Deadline: June 30, 2026

Product Design Manager

Overview of Position

We're looking for a Product Design Manager to lead our UX team at CircleCI. Our company is in the middle of a significant platform evolution - rethinking core workflows, investing in design and design systems, and figuring out what it means to build a high-performing design team in the age of AI. It's a genuinely interesting time to shape the practice here. If you're energized by the idea of shaping both the craft and the people behind a product used by over a million builds a day, while also staying close to the pixels yourself, this role will be a great fit. This is a 50/50 player/coach role - you'll manage and grow a talented team while also rolling up your sleeves to lead design work on a few of our most important product areas. You'll report into our head of design, and partner closely with Product, Engineering, Visual Design, and Research to define what the CircleCI experience looks and feels like next.

Overview of the Team

The Product Design team at CircleCI owns the end-to-end experience developers have with our CI/CD platform - from first build to scaling across an engineering org. The team today is a mix of Senior, Staff, and Product Designers primarily in San Francisco, and a few in Canada. We partner deeply with Product and Engineering, use research and data to ground our decisions, and care a lot about both craft and velocity. We believe great design at a developer tools company comes from people who genuinely want to understand how engineers work, and who treat design as a team sport.

What You'll Do

• Lead and grow the team - coach them in their craft, support their career growth, run thoughtful 1:1s and design crits, and build a design culture that's collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing
• Lead design directly on strategically important product areas - shipping real work, not just reviewing it - and setting the bar for craft and quality across the team
• Develop a point of view on AI-powered design tooling - evaluating what's emerging across designing in both pixels and code, rapid prototyping, and experimentation - so that the team can make smart bets on what to adopt
• Bring the team along on AI fluency - setting clear expectations, building shared practices, and creating space for experimentation so the team is multiplying their impact with the best available tools
• Establish and optimize design processes, partnering with visual and product designers across the org to make sure we're working efficiently and shipping consistent, high-quality experiences
• Lead and evolve the design system - improving components and guidelines, defining a governance model that balances quality with speed, and establishing clear contribution and consumption patterns for both human designers and AI-assisted workflows

What We're Looking For

• Experience managing a team of product designers while remaining hands-on with design work yourself - you genuinely enjoy both sides of the player/coach role
• Strong product design fundamentals with a portfolio that shows work on complex, technical, or developer-facing products; comfort designing for power users and nuanced workflows
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and the ecosystem around it — CI/CD, version control, CLIs, APIs, and the workflows that connect them. You don't need to be an engineer, but you should be curious about how developers work and have designed for (or around) these kinds of tools before.
• Active, thoughtful use of AI in your own design practice - you've already been experimenting with tools like AI-assisted prototyping and production-ready coding, and you have a point of view on where they help and where they don't. You're excited to bring the team along and set expectations that AI fluency is part of the job
• Proven experience building or evolving design systems - not just maintaining a component library, but defining governance, contribution models, and the operational rhythms (rituals, rubrics, processes) that let a design team scale
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills - you partner effectively with Product and Engineering leaders, give direct and kind feedback, and create space for a diverse team to do their best work

Support Engineer

As a Support Engineer, you will provide first-class post-sales technical leadership to our client base. Working directly with customers, Support Engineers are the authority on the CircleCI platform, continuous integration, and deployment practices. Finally, as part of the Customer Engineering organisation, you will have the opportunity to work directly with our Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, and Marketing teams to share knowledge and experiences, and will act as the Voice of the Customer to help drive improvements that will ensure our customers' success with CircleCI.

You will be the main point of contact for technical questions and requests for assistance that our customers register in our support ticketing system. You will work with the rest of the Support team to build out and cultivate our support operations, and help to establish a customer community to improve the experience of our customers. For this job you will need to have a strong technical capability along with a strong self-starting, dedicated mentality and the ability to maintain empathy for customers. You're going to be dealing with very technical users and complex issues, but you're also tasked with creating excitement and loyalty in the customers you interact with.

About Customer Engineering at CircleCI

CircleCI's Customer Engineering and Success organization's goal is to make life easier for our customers and leave them with the "wow" experience of building and testing their applications with ease. Customer Engineering works with customers to understand their technical and business needs and requirements — from onboarding to implementation to scale. We are comprised of Technical Success Managers and Support Engineering (post-sales ticket based support for Enterprise customers). There is an opportunity for both horizontal and vertical growth, and promotion within Customer Engineering and the CircleCI organization!

What you'll do:

• Work closely with your team and our customers to help them resolve tickets on the product
• Be creative and resourceful in solving customer technical problems and answering customer questions
• Utilize generative AI to develop customer work arounds, product improvements, and content
• Build standard methodologies for technical troubleshooting across different technologies, and author Knowledge Articles that contribute to our self-serve support portal
• Be the customer's voice and use customer feedback to help Product and Engineering improve the product
• Become a champion of the CircleCI solution
• Participate in on-call rotation

What we're looking for:

• 2+ years of technical product support or engineering or equivalent experience
• Understanding of AI prompt engineering and the usage of AI tools to solve real life problems
• Experience working directly with end-users to debug common errors
• Ability to tie business problems to technical solutions and understand technology value propositions
• A decent amount of time using and scripting *nix
• Familiarity with Git in general and ideally GitHub in particular
• A belief in that the best way for all to succeed is to honestly discuss product and company abilities and limitations with customers. We don't oversell at CircleCI
• Strong ops/infrastructure knowledge, especially networking and security
• Great relationship building skills and a good people person
• Work experience in distributed support operations, collaborating with peers in different geographies
• Outstanding written and oral interpersonal skills

Additional great skills to have!

• Experience with build, test, and deployment automation, either as a practitioner or in a customer-facing role
• Experience using AI to generate and improve code in production environments
• Ability to fix networking issues that may prevent communication between different components
• Knowledge of Docker or Linux containers in general
• Knowledge of Kubernetes in general
• Knowledge of iOS application testing and code signing
• Experience using and automating a major IaaS like AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Familiarity with deploying and debugging distributed systems

We know there's no such thing as a "perfect" candidate - we're all a work in progress and are growing new skills and capabilities all the time. CircleCI welcomes those passionate about learning and evolving, so however you identify and whatever your background, if this looks like a role where you could do your best work, we hope you'll apply.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

As a Senior Solutions Engineer at CircleCI you will be the customer’s trusted technical advisor throughout the sales and retention lifecycle. You’ll provide hands-on advice for cloud-based and single tenant deployment and product guidance with CircleCI’s largest prospects and customers. You will serve as the technical expert and owner of deal validation strategy, collaborating with account executives and success managers to identify customer business goals, needs, and pains and showing how CircleCI can address them.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the technical implementation and day-to-day management of CircleCI Demonstrations and proof-of-concepts.
• Demonstrate the technical feasibility , integrated into our customer’s technology stack, ensuring early customer success and a long-term business relationship.
• Serve as a technical advisor and subject matter expert for customers, offering guidance on product implementation, adoption, and best practices.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of customer use cases, identify opportunities for product optimization, and provide feedback to internal teams for improvements.
• Support strategic planning conversations with customer executives; connecting software delivery challenges with corporate objectives, articulating their full business impact.
• Lead technical discussions with enterprise clients,  addressing complex issues, customizations, and integrations to meet customer-specific requirements.
• Develop and deliver technical training sessions, workshops, and documentation to empower customers to maximize the value of CircleCI products.
• Stay up-to-date on industry trends, product updates, and emerging technologies to continuously enhance your technical knowledge and customer support capabilities.

What We’re Looking For

• 5-10 years experience as an engineer in the application development, devops, or CI/CD space.
• Extensive experience with solutions selling in a technical customer-facing role, such as Sales Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Customer Success Engineer, or similar position, preferably in a SaaS or software development environment.
• Strong proficiency in CI/CD concepts, DevOps practices, software configuration, and scripting languages like Python, Shell, etc..
• Knowledge of Docker or Linux containers in general.
• Outstanding presentation skills. You feel comfortable leading presentations and demos of our platform to groups, both technical and non-technical, in-person and virtually.
• Proven track record of engaging with enterprise clients, understanding their technical requirements, and delivering solutions that drive customer success.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, Sales, Product, and Engineering, to advocate for customer needs and provide valuable insights for product enhancement.

Ideal Candidates might also have:

• Experience developing mobile applications across iOS and Android devices. 
• Strong ops/infrastructure knowledge, especially networking and security.

About CircleCI

CircleCI is the world’s largest shared continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, and the hub where code moves from idea to delivery. As one of the most-used DevOps tools - processing more than 1 million builds a day - CircleCI has unique access to data on how engineering teams work, and how their code runs. Companies like Spotify, Coinbase, and BuzzFeed use us to improve engineering team productivity, release better products, and get to market faster.

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in downtown San Francisco with a global, remote workforce, CircleCI is venture-backed by Base10, Greenspring Associates, Eleven Prime, IVP, Sapphire Ventures, Top Tier Capital Partners, Baseline Ventures, Threshold Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Owl Rock Capital, Next Equity Partners, Heavybit and Harrison Metal Capital.

CircleCI is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

About the Role

We’re looking for someone who can’t stop building with AI and can’t stop showing people what they’ve built.

You’re probably the kind of engineer who spends your evenings wiring agents together just to see what breaks. Your GitHub is full of experiments that are half-finished by traditional standards, but fully alive in your head. You’ve already built something with multi-agent systems, orchestration flows, or LLM pipelines passing work between each other and the first thing you did wasn’t polish it, it was demo it.

You don’t wait for things to be “ready.” You ship the weird version, the messy version, the “this might break” version, because that’s where the learning is. And then you talk about it. A lot.

About the Team

You sit close to our AI engineering team, where real features are being built and shipped. This is your technical home base, you’re not just observing what we’re building, you’re inside it, using it early, breaking it early, and helping shape how it evolves. You’ll also work closely with Marketing, but only to amplify what’s already real, not to manufacture it.

What You'll Do

Content & Community (50% of your time)

• Write about what you actually built, what worked, what broke, and what surprised you
• Show up in AI-native engineering communities where people are actively figuring things out in real time
• Jump into conversations early, before consensus exists, and share what you’re learning as you go
• Work with Marketing to amplify your work, without slowing down how fast you share it

Events & Representation (25% of your time)

• Go to meetups and conferences with live demos that are still evolving
• Spend time in SF and global engineering communities where AI-native builders are actively experimenting
• Show up regularly, not just to speak, but to demo, learn, and exchange ideas
• Help CircleCI stay present in the conversations that are defining how AI systems are actually being built

Technical Work (25% of your time)

• Use CircleCI’s AI features before anyone else does
• Build alongside our AI team so your content is grounded in real systems, not theory
• Push on new capabilities by trying to break them early and often
• Stay close to the edge of what’s possible so you can talk about it credibly

How You'll Work

• You move fast and independently, deciding what’s worth sharing and when
• You’re trusted to represent CircleCI in public spaces with good judgment
• You don’t wait for permission, you find interesting things and make them visible

Who You Are

• You’re earlier in your career but already deep in AI-native building
• You’ve shipped experiments with agents, orchestration, or LLM-driven systems, even if they were scrappy
• You have strong opinions about how AI systems should be structured, and you’re not shy about sharing them
• You write and demo because it’s how you think, not because it’s assigned

You'll Stand Out If You Have

• A GitHub full of AI experiments that you actively share or demo
• Experience posting technical content while you’re still building it
• A presence in AI or builder communities where people recognize your work or ideas

CI/CD has been solved. Now it's being reinvented. AI agents don't just run pipelines. They write code, trigger builds, interpret failures, and propose fixes at every increasing pace. The interfaces that developers use to understand and trust that work don't exist yet. We're building them.

At CircleCI, our guiding principles aren't posters on a wall. We learn fast: we run experiments, accept failure, and scale what works. We think like the customer: every decision connects back to the developer sitting in front of a failing build at 2 am. We own the outcome: not just our slice of it, but the whole thing. If that's how you already work, you'll fit here.

As a Product Manager at CircleCI, you will lead the development of a highly technical product designed for a technical audience. Much of the work is 0-1 and highly fungible as the market evolves quickly, requiring you to shape product direction amid ambiguity and constantly evolve that direction as new capabilities and opportunities emerge. You will partner closely with the Engineering, Product Design and Research teams to ensure that CircleCI is staying on the cutting edge of software validation.

What you’ll do:

• Help shape product strategy for CircleCI, from early concepts through launch and iteration
• Deeply understand developer and validation workflows and identify where they can be made faster, more powerful and intuitive, especially with AI
• Navigate ambiguity and make thoughtful tradeoff decisions in 0-1 product environments
• Collaborate with Engineering, Research and Product Design to translate the latest capabilities and breakthroughs in AI into usable, high-value validation experiences.

What we're looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in product management and engineering, including at least 1 year as a professional engineer.
• Have a deep technical background with experience working cross-functionally with engineering and product design teams to ship technical products.
• Passionate about solving critical problems for developers at scale. Deep understanding of how software is built, tested, and released to customers. Experience shipping developer tools is preferred. 
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize amongst competing opportunities, balance customer needs with business priorities, and explain the rationale behind those decisions.
• Entrepreneurial approach and an ability to deal with ambiguity and continuously evolving environments. 
• Stay up-to-date and hands-on with AI coding tools, model capabilities and industry trends.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Senior Sales Enablement Manager

Overview of Position

Are you a seasoned sales enablement professional who doesn't just build programs - you deliver them? CircleCI is looking for a Senior Sales Enablement Manager who brings deep B2B experience, proven sales methodology expertise, and the hands-on ability to both design and facilitate world-class training. This is a builder's role: you will come in, shape what enablement looks like at CircleCI, and have a real impact on the effectiveness of our revenue teams from day one. If you thrive at the intersection of strategy and execution, love being in the room with sellers, and can translate complex technical value into compelling messaging - this is the opportunity you've been waiting for.

Overview of the Team

CircleCI's Revenue team is focused on accelerating growth and deepening customer relationships across a diverse set of segments - from high-growth startups to global enterprises. As our Senior Sales Enablement Manager, you'll partner closely with GTM leadership to ensure our go-to-market teams are equipped to engage customers with confidence, clarity, and consistency. You'll be operating in a competitive, fast-moving market where our sellers need to articulate clear differentiation against well-resourced competitors - and your work will directly shape their ability to do that. This is a high-visibility role with room to grow: as the enablement function scales, so does the opportunity to build a team around you.

What You'll Do

In this role, you'll own the full lifecycle of sales enablement - from strategy through facilitation - ensuring our revenue teams have the skills, messaging, and tools to perform at their best. You will be responsible for:

• Design and personally deliver engaging onboarding and continuous training programs for sales roles - ensuring every seller is ramped, confident, and quota-ready from day one.
• Own and operationalize our sales methodology adoption, embedding consistent frameworks and processes across the revenue organization through hands-on coaching, workshops, and reinforcement programs.
• Partner with Product Marketing to translate CircleCI's product positioning and messaging into field-ready tools - including battle cards, pitch decks, competitive resources, and talk tracks.
• Equip sellers to confidently position CircleCI's AI-powered CI/CD capabilities, including how our platform supports AI-native engineering teams and modern software delivery workflows, in partnership with Product Marketing.
• Collaborate with Revenue leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to identify skill gaps, develop targeted learning paths, and build a curriculum roadmap that scales with our growth.

What We're Looking For

The ideal candidate is a high-performing enablement professional who has been there, done that — and is energized by the opportunity to build something meaningful. You don't hand off a deck and hope for the best; you're in the room, owning the training, and driving outcomes. You'll also bring:

• 6+ years of B2B sales enablement experience, ideally within SaaS or technology, with a proven track record of directly facilitating training and driving measurable improvements in sales performance - not just program coordination. Experience selling to or enabling sellers who engage technical audiences is a plus.
• Experience working with or alongside technical product teams — whether through a product management background, close partnership with engineering or PM stakeholders, or prior enablement work at a developer tools company — giving you the credibility and fluency to understand CircleCI's platform deeply and help sellers translate its technical capabilities into customer value.
• Deep fluency in sales methodologies - particularly Command of the Message - as well as frameworks like MEDDIC and Challenger, with the ability to coach sellers on how to apply them in real customer conversations. Familiarity with MEDDPICC as a qualification framework is a bonus.
• Experience enabling sellers in a competitive, displacement-driven environment - you understand how to train reps to win against deeply embedded competitors and bundled platform solutions.
• Strong command of messaging and positioning - you can partner with Product Marketing to understand our value proposition and translate it into how reps actually sell, including competitive differentiation, customer-facing storytelling, and positioning around emerging technology like AI-powered DevOps.
• A builder's mindset: comfortable with ambiguity, energized by a blank canvas, and capable of creating structure and driving results without a fully built-out team beneath you - yet.