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Our smart cutting machines, design apps, and materials make creativity easy and accessible for everyone. We believe everyone is born creative, and our mission is to put the power of handmade into the hands of all. With a passionate community of Makers around the world, Cricut helps turn inspiration into real, tangible creations-one project at a time.\nLet’s make.\n We are seeking an experienced AI Engineering Lead/Manager to lead a team that builds and ships AI-powered features across our client-facing applications. You will bring hands-on experience integrating AI capabilities, such as AI image generation, agentic actions, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, into production software used by customers. This role blends technical leadership, hands-on engineering, and strong business sense: you will partner closely with Product Management to define features and shape the roadmap, then lead your team in turning that vision into reliable, delightful experiences.\nJob Description\nLead and grow a team of engineers building AI-powered features into our client applications, setting technical direction and a high bar for quality.\nPartner closely with Product Management to define AI features and shape the product roadmap, balancing customer value, business impact, technical feasibility, and cost.\nArchitect and deliver end-to-end integrations of AI capabilities into client-facing software (e.g., AI image generation, agentic actions and workflows, and MCP-based tool and data integrations).\nStay hands-on: write, review, and ship production code, and help your team work through the hardest technical problems.\nEvaluate models, vendors, and APIs (hosted and open-source), making pragmatic build-vs-buy recommendations based on quality, latency, cost, and reliability.\nEstablish practices for evaluating and monitoring AI features, including evals, quality metrics, guardrails, and user feedback loops.\nBuild AI experiences that are safe and trustworthy, addressing content safety, privacy, prompt injection, and responsible AI considerations.\nCollaborate with UX on intuitive interaction patterns for AI features, including handling latency, uncertainty, and failures gracefully.\nWork with data and ML partners to understand model training, fine-tuning, and data pipelines, and translate those capabilities into product opportunities.\nShip behind feature flags with progressive rollout and kill-switches, validating new behavior with production telemetry before ramping.\nOwn the health of AI features through telemetry by tracking adoption, output quality, latency, cost per request, and defect trends.\nChampion agentic coding tools in your team's daily workflow (AI-assisted code review, automated test generation) while maintaining code quality, security, and human oversight.\nMentor engineers, lead effective code reviews, and foster a culture of learning and experimentation.\nStay current on the rapidly evolving AI landscape and recommend adoption where it would meaningfully improve our products or team.\n Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.\n5+ years of hands-on, professional software development experience in one or more of: Angular, Kotlin, Swift, C#, or Python.\n2+ years of experience as a technical lead or engineering manager, leading engineers to deliver customer-facing software.\nProven experience integrating AI-based features into client-facing production software, such as AI image generation, agentic actions, LLM-powered experiences, or MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations.\nPractical experience with AI/LLM APIs and SDKs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Stability AI, or open-source models), including prompt design, tool/function calling, and structured outputs.\nSolid understanding of production AI tradeoffs, including latency, cost, reliability, evaluation, and safety.\nStrong business sense, with a track record of partnering with Product to define features, prioritize a roadmap, and measure outcomes.\nExperience designing and consuming REST APIs and integrating client applications with backend services.\nExperience with automated testing (unit, integration, end-to-end) and CI/CD pipelines.\nExperience instrumenting applications with telemetry/observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Firebase, or platform-native logging).\nHands-on, pragmatic use of modern AI engineering tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.).\nNice to Have\nKnowledge of machine learning concepts, such as how models are trained, fine-tuned, and evaluated, and how data pipelines support them.\nExperience with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings, or vector databases.\nExperience with computer vision, such as image classification, object detection, segmentation, or image understanding.\nExperience with creative or design-focused applications, including 2D graphics or image processing.\nSoft Skills\nCommunicates clearly with engineering, product, design, and business stakeholders, and can explain AI capabilities and limitations to non-technical audiences.\nBrings strong product and business judgment, connecting technical decisions to customer value and business outcomes.\nBuilds alignment on scope, priorities, and tradeoffs with Product Management and UX.\nLeads by example, mentors engineers, and helps the team grow.\nStays curious about the fast-moving AI landscape and brings practical improvements to the team.\n We’ve Got You Covered\nAt Cricut, we take care of our people. Enjoy competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage, a 401(k) match, generous PTO, tuition reimbursement, and a yearly lifestyle stipend to support your wellness and passions. You’ll also receive exclusive employee discounts-and best of all, you’ll be surrounded by some of the most talented, creative, and curious minds out there.\nA Quick Note Before You Apply…\nCricut is in an exciting chapter of transformation. We’re evolving fast-refining our strategy, growing our teams, and raising the bar across everything we do. This is an incredible opportunity for the right kind of person-but it’s not for everyone.\nWe’re looking for A-players-people who thrive in dynamic environments, turn challenges into momentum, and consistently deliver their best work. If that sounds like you, read on.\nHere’s what makes someone a great fit for this role (and for this moment at Cricut):\nYou move with urgency. You don’t wait for perfect clarity to act-you start, learn, and adjust.\nYou set high standards. You take ownership, deliver quality, and hold yourself accountable.\nYou stay focused when things move fast. You prioritize what matters most and tune out the noise.\nYou collaborate like a pro. You elevate others, communicate clearly, and bring a low-ego, high-output energy.\nYou embrace AI as part of your toolkit. From idea exploration to data analysis and creative problem-solving, you leverage AI to accelerate innovation and amplify impact-because technology and creativity go hand-in-hand here.\nOne More Thing (It’s a Big One)\nThis role is in-office at least 4-5 days per week. We believe real collaboration, innovation, and culture are built face-to-face. If you’re energized by working alongside smart, kind, creative people-and love those hallway conversations that spark the next great idea-you’ll feel right at home.\nIf you’re looking for a fully remote role, this may not be the right fit. But if you’re excited by challenge, purpose, and building something better-let’s make something amazing together.\nRelocation Statement:\nThis position is eligible for relocation assistance.\nWhat to Do Next: Please attach your resume, cover letter and/or include links to your portfolio or other social presence. If you want to show your super powers in other ways - include that information too. You can be sure that Cricut® is an employer who values individuality, equality and diversity, so tell us what you’re all about. If you are a Maker or a DIY enthusiast, whether you think you are a good one or not, we would love to hear about it when you send us your information.\nCricut® is an equal opportunity employer. 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