diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 97b332792a..4ea66435ec 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ jobs:
   # See comments inside the integration/run_tests.sh script.
   integration_test:
     <<: *job_defaults
+    parallelism: 4
     docker:
       # Needed because the integration tests expect Chrome to be installed (e.g cli-hello-world)
       - image: *browsers_docker_image
@@ -348,7 +349,9 @@ jobs:
       - attach_workspace:
           at: dist
       - *define_env_vars
-      - run: ./integration/run_tests.sh
+      # Runs the integration tests in parallel across multiple CircleCI container instances. The
+      # amount of container nodes for this job is controlled by the "parallelism" option.
+      - run: ./integration/run_tests.sh ${CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX} ${CIRCLE_NODE_TOTAL}
 
   # This job updates the content of repos like github.com/angular/core-builds
   # for every green build on angular/angular.
diff --git a/integration/get-sharded-tests.js b/integration/get-sharded-tests.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4039e4dbec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/integration/get-sharded-tests.js
@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+/**
+ * @license
+ * Copyright Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ *
+ * Use of this source code is governed by an MIT-style license that can be
+ * found in the LICENSE file at https://angular.io/license
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Script that determines the sharded tests for the current CircleCI container. CircleCI starts
+ * multiple containers if the "parallelism" option has been specified and this script splits up
+ * the integration tests into shards based on the amount of parallelism.
+ *
+ * It's also possible to manually specify tests which should run on a container because some
+ * integration tests are more complex and take up more time. In order to properly balance the
+ * duration of each container, we allow manual test shards to be specified.
+ *
+ * The output of this script can then be used to only run the tests which are assigned to the
+ * current CircleCI container.
+ */
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const minimist = require('minimist');
+
+// Parsed command line arguments.
+const {shardIndex, maxShards} = minimist(process.argv.slice(2));
+
+// Ensure that all CLI options are set properly.
+if (shardIndex == null) {
+  throw new Error('The "--shardIndex" option has not been specified.')
+} else if (maxShards == null) {
+  throw new Error('The "--maxShards" option has not been specified.');
+}
+
+// List of all integration tests that are available.
+const integrationTests = fs.readdirSync(__dirname).filter(
+    testName => fs.statSync(path.join(__dirname, testName)).isDirectory());
+
+// Manual test shards which aren't computed automatically. This is helpful when a specific
+// set of integration test takes up *way* more time than all other tests, and we want to
+// balance out the duration for all specific shards.
+const manualTestShards = [
+  // The first shard should only run the bazel integration tests because these take up
+  // a lot of time and shouldn't be split up automatically.
+  ['bazel', 'bazel-schematics']
+];
+
+// Tests which haven't been assigned manually to a shard. These tests will be automatically
+// split across the remaining available shards.
+const unassignedTests = stripManualOverrides(integrationTests, manualTestShards);
+
+if (manualTestShards.length === maxShards && unassignedTests.length) {
+  throw new Error(
+      `Tests have been specified manually for all available shards, but there were ` +
+      `integration tests which haven't been specified and won't run right now. Missing ` +
+      `tests: ${unassignedTests.join(', ')}`)
+} else if (manualTestShards.length > maxShards) {
+  throw new Error(
+      `Too many manual shards have been specified. Increase the amount of maximum shards.`);
+}
+
+// In case the shard for the current index has been specified manually, we just output
+// the tests for the manual shard.
+if (manualTestShards[shardIndex]) {
+  printTestNames(manualTestShards[shardIndex]);
+} else {
+  const amountManualShards = manualTestShards.length;
+  // In case there isn't a manual shard specified for this shard index, we just compute the
+  // tests for this shard. Note that we need to subtract the amount of manual shards because
+  // we need to split up the unassigned tests across the remaining available shards.
+  printTestNames(getTestsForShardIndex(
+      unassignedTests, shardIndex - amountManualShards, maxShards - amountManualShards));
+}
+
+/**
+ * Splits the specified tests into a limited amount of shards and returns the tests that should
+ * run on the given shard. The shards of tests are being created deterministically and therefore
+ * we get reproducible tests when executing the same script multiple times.
+ */
+function getTestsForShardIndex(tests, shardIndex, maxShards) {
+  return tests.filter((n, index) => index % maxShards === shardIndex);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Strips all manual tests from the list of integration tests. This is necessary because
+ * when computing the shards automatically we don't want to include manual tests again. This
+ * would mean that CircleCI runs some integration tests multiple times.
+ */
+function stripManualOverrides(integrationTests, manualShards) {
+  const allManualTests = manualShards.reduce((res, manualTests) => res.concat(manualTests), []);
+  return integrationTests.filter(testName => !allManualTests.includes(testName))
+}
+
+/** Prints the specified test names to the stdout. */
+function printTestNames(testNames) {
+  // Print the test names joined with spaces because this allows Bash to easily convert the output
+  // of this script into an array.
+  process.stdout.write(testNames.join(' '));
+}
diff --git a/integration/run_tests.sh b/integration/run_tests.sh
index 59f8d5f489..f327287300 100755
--- a/integration/run_tests.sh
+++ b/integration/run_tests.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ cd "$(dirname "$0")"
 # basedir is the workspace root
 readonly basedir=$(pwd)/..
 
-# Track payload size functions
+# When running on the CI, we track the payload size of various integration output files. Also
+# we shard tests across multiple CI job instances. The script needs to be run with a shard index
+# and the maximum amount of shards available for the integration tests on the CI.
+# For example: "./run_tests.sh {SHARD_INDEX} {MAX_SHARDS}".
 if $CI; then
   # We don't install this by default because it contains some broken Bazel setup
   # and also it's a very big dependency that we never use except when publishing
@@ -18,12 +21,22 @@ if $CI; then
   yarn add --silent -D firebase-tools@5.1.1
   source ${basedir}/scripts/ci/payload-size.sh
 
+  SHARD_INDEX=${1:?"No shard index has been specified."}
+  MAX_SHARDS=${2:?"The maximum amount of shards has not been specified."}
+
+  # Determines the tests that need to be run for this shard index.
+  TEST_DIRS=$(node ./get-sharded-tests.js --shardIndex ${SHARD_INDEX} --maxShards ${MAX_SHARDS})
+
   # NB: we don't run build-packages-dist.sh because we expect that it was done
   # by an earlier job in the CircleCI workflow.
 else
   # Not on CircleCI so let's build the packages-dist directory.
   # This should be fast on incremental re-build.
   ${basedir}/scripts/build-packages-dist.sh
+
+  # If we aren't running on CircleCI, we do not shard tests because this would be the job of
+  # Bazel eventually. For now, we just run all tests sequentially when running locally.
+  TEST_DIRS=$(ls | grep -v node_modules)
 fi
 
 # Workaround https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/2165
@@ -36,7 +49,7 @@ rm_cache
 mkdir $cache
 trap rm_cache EXIT
 
-for testDir in $(ls | grep -v node_modules) ; do
+for testDir in ${TEST_DIRS}; do
   [[ -d "$testDir" ]] || continue
   echo "#################################"
   echo "Running integration test $testDir"