Wanted: Data Scientist who will help us keep LLMs under control.

About us

White Circle is an AI Safety company building the safety, reliability, and optimization layer for AI systems. At the core of our platform are policies – simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn’t do. We automatically test, enforce, and continuously improve these policies at scale.

• We’ve raised $11M from top funds, founders, and senior leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, HuggingFace, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry, and others

• We process over one hundred million API calls every month

• We fine-tune and train our own LLMs so they run faster and cheaper than any open or proprietary model

We’re a small, highly focused team. If you want to work deeply on hard problems, see your work ship to production quickly, and influence how AI safety is actually built – you’re the one we need.

You will:

• Turn petabytes of unstructured text into a structured, explorable view (topics, clusters, segments, trends, anomalies): iterate from “unknown unknowns” to stable definitions we can track.

• Build scalable representation pipelines: sampling strategies, preprocessing/normalization, embeddings at scale, indexing, and retrieval to make the corpus searchable and analyzable.

• Use LLMs pragmatically: labeling/classification, weak supervision, data enrichment, summarization, and automated diagnostics of inbound volumes (with cost/quality controls).

• Deliver insights that change decisions: translate findings into product and operational actions (what data we have, what’s missing, where quality breaks, what to prioritize next).

• Ship self-serve analytics: datasets, data models, and lightweight tools/dashboards so the team can explore and answer questions without ad-hoc requests.

• Partner closely with engineering/research: align pipelines with production constraints (latency/cost/privacy), and integrate outputs into workflows.

You’ll fit right in if you:

• Strong Python + SQL with an engineering mindset: you can build reliable pipelines, not just notebooks.

• Solid applied NLP/ML experience on real-world text: embeddings, clustering, topic modeling, semantic search, classification; you understand failure modes and how to debug them.

• Comfortable at scale: distributed processing, large-scale storage-querying, and performance-cost tradeoffs.

• You know how to evaluate fuzzy problems: offline/online metrics, human-in-the-loop labelling, inter-annotator agreement, drift monitoring, and reproducibility.

• Prior work with safety/moderation datasets, policy/rule systems, or high-volume logging/observability

Why White Circle

• Salary of $80,000 to $150,000 + equity

• 20 days of paid vacation

• Work from Paris (hybrid) + relocation package

• Best medical insurance in France

• All the hardware, tools, and services you need

• Covered subscriptions for AI agents and IDEs

• Team off-sites twice a year: we’ve recently been to the Alps and to Saint-Tropez

How we hire

1. Intro call with one of our colleagues

2. Complete the take-home assignment

3. Show your best during the technical interview

4. Final call with our CEO and CTO

Please submit your application in English - it’s our company language so you’ll be speaking lots of it if you join

Compensation Range: $80K - $150K