Scale is a vital part of bringing AI-enabled technologies to the world, from autonomous driving to drones, robots, and large language models. For example, Scale works with the world's top self-driving car and robotics ML teams as well as the largest companies in the generative AI space. 

As our customer base is growing, you will be on the front lines of our field engineering efforts for our federal AI projects, having the opportunity to meaningfully impact millions of dollars in revenue by working closely with our largest public sector customers and ensuring that they become passionate, lifelong Scale customers.

Our Field Engineers ensure customers' experiences with Scale's technology are seamless and optimized to build a successful, long-term partnership. Field Engineers partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations to lead existing customers through building production-grade data pipelines. We do this by knowing our customer’s use-cases inside and out, and creating the tooling and documentation needed to scalably support their growth.

Field Engineers in general are experts on Scale's products and codebase, and have general technical knowledge on web development, using APIs, and working with large volumes of data. Field Engineers are strong relationship builders, great project managers, and always fun to work with. 

The ideal person is a software engineer generalist who enjoys working with clients directly, taking ambiguous requirements and issues, and quickly designing and building sustainable solutions in close collaboration with the Product and Engineering teams. This role is at the intersection of customer delivery, product, and engineering, giving you a breadth of experience and fully leveraging both sides of your brain. If this sounds like you, we invite you to apply!

You will:

• Implement end-to-end data integrations, syncing customer’s data to Scale’s platform and back
• Work closely with our customer’s engineering teams to optimize data pipelines, including providing input towards designing API endpoints and input/output schemas
• Design, develop and maintain playbooks, internal tools, Scale’s documentation and SDKs to quickly get customers set up for long-term success
• Partner with Software Engineers and Operations to remove any technical hurdles customers may face / Debug technical issues impacting delivery and own technical escalations coming from the customer
• Be accountable for the customer’s technical experience throughout their time with Scale
• Work with AEs and PMs to identify customer-specific feature requests
• Develop technical domain expertise in areas of Large Language Models, 2D Image Annotation, and working with API integrations
• Evangelize Scale and interact with customers at major events
• Have an active TS/SCI clearance

Ideally you'd have:

• Track record of success as a hybrid customer-facing engineer or similar function, wearing multiple hats along the way
• Prior technical hands-on experience working with clients in a pre or post-sales capacity to realize business goals
• Prior experience developing with Python and JavaScript, or other modern software languages
• Strong engineering background preferably in Computer Science, Mathematics, or other quantitative fields
• Strong project management and interpersonal skills
• Presentation skills with a high degree of technical credibility when speaking with executives and front-line engineers
• High level of comfort communicating effectively across internal and external organizations
• Intellectual curiosity, empathy, and ability to operate with high velocity

Nice to haves:

• Experience in AI
• Experience working in classified environments
• Previous experience as a technical go-to-market resource
• Understanding of DevSecOps principles, including secure software delivery, infrastructure as code, and continuous integration/deployment
• Hands-on knowledge of container orchestration with Kubernetes and experience with Helm charts for application deployment
• Experience automating infrastructure and configuration management using Ansible or similar tools

Scale AI is at the forefront of the AI revolution, helping the U.S. government unlock the potential of AI across national security missions. We’re building enterprise-grade generative AI solutions and delivering them into operational use cases that matter.

The Global Forward Deployments (GFD) organization operates as a critical horizontal layer across Scale, sitting at the intersection of Engineering, Product, Design (EPD), Delivery, and GTM. As our business scales, we are growing the GFD Project Management Office (PMO) to act as the connective tissue that brings structure to ambiguity by aligning teams, organizing cross-functional workstreams, and keeping priorities coordinated across the organization.

As a Technical Program Manager within this expanding PMO, you will drive execution across diverse initiatives by partnering closely with Infrastructure & Security, Product, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Mission/Field Engineering, Delivery, and Go-To-Market (GTM) teams. Your focus will be integrating engineering roadmaps, customer delivery timelines, and security constraints to enable successful deployments in complex, isolated environments.

What You Will Do

• Lead as a Horizontal PMO Partner: Serve as a central node within the growing GFD PMO, driving alignment across Engineering, Product, and Design (EPD) initiatives and ensuring priorities remain top-of-mind across the organization.
• Spearhead Niche Initiatives: Take on Scale’s difficult-but-ambiguous problems, breaking them down in a structured way and driving them to successful outcomes. You will dive into both technology and organizational processes to craft effective solutions and gain efficiencies, track resourcing and vendor management, and align internal resources to solve unique organizational, and technical challenges. 
• Bridge EPD, Delivery, and GTM: Act as the primary technical program manager uniting GFD with Product, ML, Mission & Field Engineering, Delivery, and GTM teams to wrangle contractual deliverables across EPD, unblock complex custom integrations, and drive technical milestones against critical contract checkpoints.
• Optimize Cross-Functional Processes: Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to improve processes and procedures, ensuring Scale's continued success.
• Foster Communication: Create an effective feedback loop between all teams within EPD as well as with partner teams like Legal, BizOps, and Partnerships.
• Navigate Ambiguity: Transition AI/ML technologies and processes into working Public Sector products/solutions even when requirements are undefined or ambiguous.

Ideally You’d Have

• Current or past Security Clearance (TS/SCI preferred).
• Proven experience partnering closely with Product and cross-functional Engineering teams to align technical roadmaps, manage dependencies, and drive complex, multi-team initiatives.
• Experience in project management, including planning, organizing, and managing resources.
• A demonstrated capacity to operate effectively and maintain high-quality output within a high-tempo, ambiguous, or chaotic environment.
• Experience in security and compliance, with a focus on cross-departmental collaboration.
• Experience in delivering secure and reliable solutions within classified, isolated, and air-gapped environments.
• Demonstrated understanding of security practices within cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience in a high growth, fast-paced technology company.
• An action-oriented mindset, balancing creative problem-solving with a strong drive to achieve outcomes.

Nice to Haves

• Experience in microservice design and Kubernetes-based container orchestration.
• Experience applying AI or Machine Learning.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience using data analysis tools or software.
• Demonstrated history of fostering cross-functional collaboration with Delivery, Sales, and Engineering teams.
• Backlog refinement & roadmapping experience with tools like Linear and JIRA.
• Proven experience translating complex SOW requirements into tactical engineering deliverables 
• Experience maintaining alignment with organizational capacity planning and delivery timelines.
• Background in Software, Security, or System Engineering.

(Note this role must be based within the continental United States and requires current US Citizenship to support Scale’s Public Sector business.)

The goal of a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Scale is to leverage techniques in the fields of generative AI, computer vision, reinforcement learning, and agentic AI to improve Scale's products and customer experience in production environments. Our machine learning engineers take advantage of robust internal infrastructure and  unique access to massive datasets to deliver improvements to our customers.

Our Public Sector Machine Learning team is focused on deploying cutting-edge models to mission-critical government systems through products like Donovan and Thunderforge. Our work spans multiple modalities, with a strong focus on both large language models and computer vision. On the LLM side, we are developing agentic systems that help solve complex operational and planning challenges for government partners. This includes building agent frameworks that integrate with custom retrieval pipelines and production APIs, as well as evaluation tools to benchmark and refine agent behavior. We're also advancing research in areas like reinforcement learning for agentic LLMs, with successful deployment into real-world operational environments. On the computer vision front, we're training advanced models to increase labeling throughput and automate perception tasks. Our efforts include building large-scale fine-tuning pipelines, training models across multiple modalities, and developing generalizable vision foundation models to support a wide range of defense applications.

You will:

• Take state of the art models developed internally and from the community, use them in production to solve problems for our customers and taskers
• Improve and maintain production models through retraining, hyperparameter tuning, and architectural updates, while preserving core performance characteristics
• Collaborate with product and research teams to identify and prototype ML-driven product enhancements, including for upcoming product lines
• Work with massive datasets to develop both generic models as well as fine tune models for specific products
• Build scalable machine learning infrastructure to automate and optimize our ML services
• Serve as a cross-functional representative and advocate for machine learning techniques across engineering and product organizations
• Be comfortable learning new technologies quickly and managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable with light travel (approximately 10%) for customer interaction and team needs
• This role will require an active security clearance or the ability to obtain a security clearance

Ideally You’d Have:

• Extensive experience with GenAI, Agentic AI, natural language processing, deep learning and deep reinforcement learning, or computer vision in a production environment
• Solid background in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming
• Strong programing skills in Python, experience in Tensorflow or PyTorch

Nice to Haves:

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence specialization
• Experience working with cloud platforms (eg. AWS or GCP) and deploying machine learning models in cloud environments
• Experience with computer vision, generative AI models, large language models, or agentic systems
• Familiarity with ML evaluation frameworks and agentic model design

Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Model Evaluations, Public Sector

The Public Sector ML team at Scale deploys advanced AI systems—including LLMs, agentic models, and multimodal pipelines—into mission-critical government environments. We build evaluation frameworks that ensure these models operate reliably, safely, and effectively under real-world constraints. As an ML Engineer, you will design, implement, and scale automated evaluation pipelines that help customers trust and operationalize advanced AI systems across defense, intelligence, and federal missions.

You will:

• Develop and maintain automated evaluation pipelines for ML models across functional, performance, robustness, and safety metrics, including LLM-judge–based evaluations.
• Design test datasets and benchmarks to measure generalization, bias, explainability, and failure modes.
• Build evaluation frameworks for LLM agents, including infrastructure for scenario-based and environment-based testing.
• Conduct comparative analyses of model architectures, training procedures, and evaluation outcomes.
• Implement tools for continuous monitoring, regression testing, and quality assurance for ML systems.
• Design and execute stress tests and red-teaming workflows to uncover vulnerabilities and edge cases.
• Collaborate with operations teams and subject matter experts to produce high-quality evaluation datasets.
• Comfortable with light travel (approximately 10%) for customer interaction and team needs.

This role will require an active security clearance or the ability to obtain a security clearance.

Ideally you’d have:

• Experience in computer vision, deep learning, reinforcement learning, or NLP in production settings.
• Strong programming skills in Python; experience with TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Background in algorithms, data structures, and object-oriented programming.
• Experience with LLM pipelines, simulation environments, or automated evaluation systems.
• Ability to convert research insights into measurable evaluation criteria.

Nice to haves:

• Graduate degree in CS, ML, or AI.
• Cloud experience (AWS, GCP) and model deployment experience.
• Experience with LLM evaluation, CV robustness, or RL validation.
• Knowledge of interpretability, adversarial robustness, or AI safety frameworks.
• Familiarity with ML evaluation frameworks and agentic model design.
• Experience in regulated, classified, or mission-critical ML domains.

National Security Hackathon Attendees – Stay Connected with Scale AI

This posting is for candidates who attended National Security Hackathon and connected with a member of the Scale AI team.

It was great meeting you at the Hackathon! Whether we spoke at our booth or on the floor, we always enjoy connecting with people who are passionate about advancing AI and machine learning.

At Scale AI, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. For the past ten years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, supporting some of the most exciting advancements in AI, including generative AI, defense applications, robotics, and autonomous systems.

We’re continuing to grow our team across a range of technical and mission-focused roles.

If you're excited about the problems we’re tackling, feel free to share your information here. A member of our team will reach out if there’s a strong fit with one of our open opportunities. And even if the timing isn’t right today, we’d love to stay connected.

We look forward to continuing the conversation. In the meantime, you can learn more about our work at scale.com.

As Scale's product portfolio and customer base expand, we are seeking skilled DevOps Engineers, Public Sector to be at the forefront of building out and enhancing our CI/CD pipelines. You will play a crucial role in streamlining our Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) through collaborative efforts, moving us from a state of manual, disparate deployments to a more unified and automated system.

These engineers will gain a deep understanding of our core products' architecture and composition, enabling them to effectively deploy and manage these systems when needed. A critical aspect of this role will be seamlessly integrating various machine learning (ML) tasks and updates into our SDLC, transforming currently separate ML components into a cohesive and automated workflow. While direct ML expertise is not required, a desire to learn and integrate ML components into the lifecycle is essential.

Must have:

• At least an active TS/SCI clearance and the ability & willingness to up level to CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a TS/SCI clearance.

You will:

• Design, develop, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment of our lowside and highside products.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to enhance existing application code for improved compatibility and streamlined integration within automated pipelines.
• Contribute to the overall architecture and design of our deployment systems, bringing new ideas to life for increased efficiency and reliability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex deployment issues, ensuring minimal disruption to development cycles.
• Develop a deep understanding of our product and ML architectures to facilitate seamless integration and deployment.
• Document pipeline processes and configurations to ensure maintainability and knowledge transfer.
• Proactively incorporate security best practices into all stages of the CI/CD pipeline, building security into our development processes.
• Drive standardization and foster collaboration across different product teams to achieve a unified and efficient SDLC.

Ideally you'd have:

• 2-3 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, Software Engineer with a strong focus on CI/CD, or a similar role.
• Proven track record of building or significantly enhancing CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience configuring and adapting application code to integrate seamlessly with evolving CI/CD environments.
• Experience working fluently with standard containerization & deployment technologies like Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, etc.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Strong proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Familiarity with various CI/CD platforms (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Knowledge of software architecture, system design, and version control systems.
• Comfort with rapidly changing, fast-paced environments and a passion for finding automated solutions to complex problems.
• Basic understanding of security best practices in software development and an eagerness to integrate them.
• A hunger for learning new technologies, particularly in the realm of integrating ML into automated workflows.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, collaboration, and communication skills.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Exposure to machine learning lifecycles or MLOps concepts.
• Prior experience in classified environments.

Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Mission Software Engineer to join our dynamic Federal Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will play a critical role in supporting Scale’s government customers by scoping and developing onsite solutions. Our scalable, high-performance platform is the foundation for these customer solutions, and your expertise will be instrumental in designing and implementing systems that can handle interactions with existing customer systems to help our products integrate into existing customer workflows.   

You will:

• Work directly with customers to understand their problems and translate those into features in Scale’s platform.
• Be open to >50% travel or relocation to a key customer geographic location.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute the vision for backend solutions, ensuring they meet the unique needs of government agencies operating in secure environments.
• Implement end-to-end data integrations, syncing customer’s data to Scale’s platform and back
• Deploy and maintain Scale software at customer sites
• Develop customer requested features and work closely with them to ensure that they win customer love.
• Build robust and reliable backend systems that can serve as standalone products, empowering customers to accelerate their own AI ambitions.
• Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions.
• This role will require an active TS/SCI security clearance or the ability to obtain a security clearance.

Ideally you have:

• Track record of success as a hybrid customer facing engineer, forward deployed software engineer, and ability to quickly adapt to different roles.
• Prior experience developing with Python and JavaScript, or other modern software languages. Familiarity with Node and React is a plus.
• Cloud-Native Technologies: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in developing and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment. Understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus
• Linux experience: Understanding of shell scripting, operating systems, etc
• Networking experience: Understanding of networking technologies, configuration  (ports, protocols, etc) 
• Data Engineering: Knowledge of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and experience in building data pipelines to integrate and process diverse data sources. Understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and data governance principles
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand complex challenges and devise effective solutions. Ability to think critically, identify root causes, and propose innovative approaches to overcome technical obstacles

Principal Architect

Location: Washington, DC

About the Role
We are seeking a Principal Architect to drive the design, development, and deployment of our agentic AI products in a fast-paced, collaborative, extremely high-visibility environment.

In this role, you will lead a team of 50+ engineers, providing both strategic and technical guidance. You’ll be responsible for high-impact architectural decisions, cross-company collaboration, and executive level engagements. 

What You’ll Do

• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a high-performing engineering team of 50+, fostering a culture of technical excellence and ownership.
• Technical Direction: Guide your team through complex challenges involving LLMs, AI agents, and large-scale distributed systems.
• Executive Stakeholder Engagement: Represent Scale AI in high-stakes negotiations and strategic discussions with senior external partners, demonstrating strong technical competence and credibility.
• Strategic Planning & Communication: Develop and communicate a compelling vision for Scale AI’s technology applied to your program. Provide regular updates to senior leadership and key stakeholders on progress, risks, and opportunities.
• Culture & Teamwork: Foster a culture of speed, unity of purpose, resilience, and teamwork. Lead through uncertainty with determination and adaptability.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in a technical leadership or staff role.
• Deep understanding of modern AI/ML technologies, including experience working with LLMs and AI agents.
• Proficient in one or more modern programming languages (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Strong product and business sense, with a track record of aligning engineering efforts with company goals.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments and guide your team to do the same.
• Experience in executive level engagement with industry partners and Public Sector customers

Success Metrics

Within 6 months:

• Successful demonstration of agentic AI’s mission value in high-stakes customer demonstrations
• Establish Scale AI as the preferred agentic AI partner for the PEO
• Establish high velocity, agile engineering cadence both internally and with our industry partners

Within 12–18 months:

• Secure follow-on contract award with expanded scope for Scale
• Position Scale AI as the global AI leader in this mission area
• Establish developed solutions as Scale product offerings to deliver on future contracts

The Public Sector software engineers (SWEs) create the core product building blocks forward-deployed teams use to develop agentic capabilities that function across multiple domains. SWEs responsibilities include building the systems required to ingest and process federal datasets to support real-time decision-making in contested environments. We develop novel agentic enabling capabilities that includes:

• Create multi-layered guardrails around agents
• Optimize data retrieval for agents
• Orchestrate fleets of asynchronous agents
• Automatically alerts users to deviations in data
• Illustrating how an agent reached a decision

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the development of a vertical feature or a horizontal capability to include defining requirements with stakeholders and implementation until it is accepted by the stakeholders.

You will: Lead the design and implementation of scalable backend systems and distributed architectures for Federal customers.

• Manage the full lifecycle of feature development from requirement definition to deployment on classified networks.
• Direct the orchestration of asynchronous agent fleets to meet mission requirements.
• Lead customer engagements to translate mission needs into technical requirements.
• Own the communication with stakeholders to ensure implementation meets defined acceptance criteria.
• Conduct technical reviews and identify risks within machine learning infrastructure and model serving.
• Drive the platform roadmap by providing technical specifications for Federal product offerings.

Ideally you will have: 

• Full Stack Development: Proficiency in front-end, back-end development and infrastructure, including experience with modern web development frameworks, programming languages, and databases
• Cloud-Native Technologies: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in developing and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment. Understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus
• Data Engineering: Knowledge of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and experience in building data pipelines to integrate and process diverse data sources. Understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and data governance principles
• AI Application Integration: Familiarity with integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) and building agentic workflows. Understanding of prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agent orchestration is beneficial.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand complex challenges and devise effective solutions. Ability to think critically, identify root causes, and propose innovative approaches to overcome technical obstacles
• Collaboration and Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and customers. Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and foster a collaborative work environment
• Adaptability and Learning Agility: Willingness to embrace new technologies, learn new skills, and adapt to defining and evolving project requirements. Ability to quickly grasp and apply new concepts and stay up-to-date with emerging trends in software engineering

The Public Sector software engineers (SWEs) create the core product building blocks forward-deployed teams use to develop agentic capabilities that function across multiple domains. SWEs responsibilities include building the systems required to ingest and process federal datasets to support real-time decision-making in contested environments. We develop novel agentic enabling capabilities that includes:

• Create multi-layered guardrails around agents
• Optimize data retrieval for agents
• Orchestrate fleets of asynchronous agents
• Automatically alerts users to deviations in data
• Illustrating how an agent reached a decision

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will orchestrate the implementation of vertical features and horizontal capabilities to include mentoring other engineers on defining requirements with stakeholders and communication tradeoffs of technical implementations on feature and capabilities until they are accepted by the stakeholders.

You will: Orchestrate feature implementation across the Federal engineering team to ensure architectural consistency.

• Define technical strategy for agentic guardrails, explainability, and fleet orchestration.
• Ensure system reliability and performance across multiple security classifications and network types.
• Mentor engineers in the process of defining requirements with stakeholders and gathering acceptance.
• Communicate high-level technical trade-offs and implementation strategies to senior government stakeholders and Scale C-Suite members.
• Influence the long-term product strategy and technical roadmap for the Federal business unit.
• Consult on the architecture of AI-powered solutions for large-scale federal contracts.

Ideally you will have: 

• Full Stack Development: Proficiency in front-end, back-end development and infrastructure, including experience with modern web development frameworks, programming languages, and databases
• Cloud-Native Technologies: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in developing and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment. Understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus
• Data Engineering: Knowledge of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and experience in building data pipelines to integrate and process diverse data sources. Understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and data governance principles
• AI Application Integration: Familiarity with integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) and building agentic workflows. Understanding of prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and agent orchestration is beneficial.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand complex challenges and devise effective solutions. Ability to think critically, identify root causes, and propose innovative approaches to overcome technical obstacles
• Collaboration and Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and customers. Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and foster a collaborative work environment
• Adaptability and Learning Agility: Willingness to embrace new technologies, learn new skills, and adapt to defining and evolving project requirements. Ability to quickly grasp and apply new concepts and stay up-to-date with emerging trends in software engineering

Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer, Frontier AI Infrastructure to join our dynamic Public Sector Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will own the model inference layer - enabling state of the art models, debugging the latest AI tools, managing networking, debugging latency, and tracking pricing/usage metrics for AI models. You will lead technical discussions on the frontlines with cloud vendors and customers to deliver on critical contracts and to debug platform issues. You will also work upstream with Product to understand features before they break, moving us from "infra-only debugging" to proactive integration testing.

You will:

• Design and implement secure scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure.
• Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components
• Re-architect the stack to run in compliant or restrictive environments. This requires designing swappable components (auth, storage, logging) to meet government/security mandates without breaking the product.
• You will work with Product to build integration tests that catch issues early, shifting the focus from "infra-only debugging" to preventing failures upstream.
• Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions.
• Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings.

Must have:

• At least an active secret clearance and the ability & willingness to up level to TS/SCI with CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a secret clearance

Ideally you'd have: 

• Full Stack Development: Proficiency in both front-end and back-end development, including experience with modern web development frameworks, programming languages, and databases. Experience with developing & delivering software to air-gapped & isolated environments is a plus.
• Cloud-Native Technologies: Understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) is desired. Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in developing and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment. 
• Security Focused: Experience with Federal Compliance frameworks, and requirements(e.g, Cloud SRG, FedRAMP, STIG Benchmarks, etc). Experience developing software & technical solutions that meet strict security & regulatory compliance requirements.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand complex challenges and devise effective solutions. Ability to think critically, identify root causes, and propose innovative approaches to overcome technical obstacles.
• Collaboration and Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and customers. Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and foster a collaborative work environment.
• Adaptability and Learning Agility: Willingness to embrace new technologies, learn new skills, and adapt to evolving project requirements. Ability to quickly grasp and apply new concepts and stay up-to-date with emerging trends in software engineering.
• Must be able to support work 3-4 days a week from the DC, SF, NYC, or STL office.

Scale AI’s Public Sector business is growing quickly as government agencies adopt AI to support critical national security, defense, and public sector missions. We’re looking for a hands-on Field Engineering Manager on the front lines leading a team of our field engineering efforts for our federal AI projects, having the opportunity to meaningfully impact millions of dollars in revenue by working closely with our largest public sector customers and ensuring that they become passionate, lifelong Scale customers. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in technical environments, enjoys managing teams while staying close to the code, and wants to work on meaningful problems that impact real world operations across the U.S. government. 

Field Engineers are software engineering generalists who enjoy working with clients directly, taking ambiguous requirements and issues, and quickly designing and building production-grade solutions in close collaboration with the Product, Engineering, and Delivery teams. Field Engineers are experts on Scale's products and codebase, and have general technical knowledge on GenAI systems, APIs, networking, and data engineering. Field Engineers are strong relationship builders, great project managers, and always fun to work with. You’ll play a critical role in delivering technical solutions—all while helping your team grow and execute.

You’ll split your time between technical planning and execution (50%) and people management and team development (50%), leading a team of 6-8 engineers. You’ll work cross-functionally with product, engineering, security, and delivery teams to ensure our engineering efforts meet complex federal compliance, security, and performance needs.

Day to day:

• 50% Field engineering - customer engagement, technical development and delivery 
• 50% Managing a growing team

You will:

• Recruit a high-performing engineering team. 
• Drive engineering productivity. Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to a team of customer facing engineers working on Generative AI projects. 
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and execute strategic roadmap based on customer needs.
• Work directly with customers to understand their problems and translate those into custom workflows within Scale’s platform.
• Be open to ~25% travel or relocation to a key customer geographic location.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define the vision for backend solutions, ensuring they meet the unique needs of government agencies operating in secure environments.
• Implement end-to-end data integrations, syncing customer’s data to Scale’s platform and back.
• Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions.
• Lead end-to-end technical delivery of custom workflows from scoping to development to testing to implementation
• This role will require an active TS/SCI security clearance or the ability to obtain a security clearance.

Ideally you’d have:

• 5+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation.
• 2+ years of prior engineering management or equivalent experience and previously managed an engineering team.
• Track record of success as a hybrid customer facing engineer, forward deployed software engineer, and ability to quickly adapt to different roles.
• Prior experience developing with Python and JavaScript, or other modern software languages. 
• Cloud-Native Technologies: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in developing and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment. Understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus.
• Linux experience: Understanding of shell scripting, operating systems, etc.
• Networking experience: Understanding of networking technologies, configuration  (ports, protocols, etc) is a plus.
• Data Engineering: Knowledge of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and experience in building data pipelines to integrate and process diverse data sources. Understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and data governance principles.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand complex challenges and devise effective solutions. Ability to think critically, identify root causes, and propose innovative approaches to overcome technical obstacles.
• Understand unique DoD and USG constraints when it comes to technology.

• Conduct in-depth code reviews to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities.
• Evaluate and enhance the security of our product offerings, through RFC and service review.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines with a strong focus on security.
• Perform Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) to identify vulnerabilities in production code.
• Utilize terraform orchestration to ensure secure and efficient infrastructure management.
• Guide engineering teams to build robust long-term solutions that consider security and privacy.
• Clearly explain the mechanics and significance of security vulnerabilities, including their exploitability and potential impact.
• Influence the security strategy and direction of the team, advocating for best practices and continuous improvement.

• Proven experience as a Security Engineer with a focus on product security.
• Proficiency in NodeJS, TypeScript, Python, and/or Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of modern Javascript application design.
• Production experience with Kubernetes backed services
• Hands-on experience with SAST and DAST tools and methodologies.
• Familiarity with terraform orchestration for infrastructure management.
• You can structure complex problems and diagnose root causes independently, providing actionable insights without requiring manager input.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly present technical concepts and their implications to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to influence security strategies and drive improvements within a team.
• Relevant security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CEH, OSCP) are a plus.

Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer, ARC (Architecture, Reliability, & Compute) to join our dynamic Public Sector Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will define how the company ships software, establishing the patterns for deploying into complex government and high-security environments, rather than just running Terraform scripts. You will build and maintain internal CLIs/tools that standardize testing, deployment, environment management and are tools that engineering relies on to prevent downstream breakages. You will execute on automated deployment efforts to pay down tech debt, creating fully functional staging/testing environments, and defining the company's standard for safe deployments.

You will:

• Design and implement secure scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure.
• Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components.
• Re-architect the stack to run in compliant or restrictive environments. This requires designing swappable components (auth, storage, logging) to meet government/security mandates without breaking the product.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute the vision for backend solutions, ensuring they meet the unique needs of government agencies operating in secure environments.
• Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions.
• Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings.

Must have:

• At least an active secret clearance and the ability & willingness to up level to TS/SCI with CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a secret clearance

Ideally you'd have:

• Full Stack Development: Proficiency in both front-end and back-end development, including experience with modern web development frameworks, programming languages, and databases. Experience with developing & delivering software to air-gapped & isolated environments is a plus.
• Cloud-Native Technologies: Understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) is desired. Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in developing and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment. 
• Security Focused: Experience with Federal Compliance frameworks, and requirements(e.g, Cloud SRG, FedRAMP, STIG Benchmarks, etc). Experience developing software & technical solutions that meet strict security & regulatory compliance requirements.
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand complex challenges and devise effective solutions. Ability to think critically, identify root causes, and propose innovative approaches to overcome technical obstacles.
• Collaboration and Communication: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and customers. Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to non-technical audiences and foster a collaborative work environment.
• Adaptability and Learning Agility: Willingness to embrace new technologies, learn new skills, and adapt to evolving project requirements. Ability to quickly grasp and apply new concepts and stay up-to-date with emerging trends in software engineering.
• Must be able to support work 3-4 days a week from the DC, SF, NYC, or STL office.

Scale AI’s Public Sector business is growing quickly as government agencies adopt AI to support critical national security, defense, and public sector missions. We are looking for a Mission Software Engineering Manager to join our dynamic Federal Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will play a critical role in supporting Scale’s government customers by scoping and developing onsite solutions. Our scalable, high-performance platform is the foundation for these customer solutions, and your expertise will be instrumental in designing and implementing systems that can handle interactions with existing customer systems to help our products integrate into existing customer workflows.  

You will:

• Recruit a high-performing engineering team. 
• Drive engineering productivity. Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to a team of engineers working on Generative AI projects. 
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and execute strategic roadmap.
• Work directly with customers to understand their problems and translate those into features in Scale’s platform.
• Be open to ~25% travel or relocation to a key customer geographic location.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute the vision for backend solutions, ensuring they meet the unique needs of government agencies operating in secure environments.
• Implement end-to-end data integrations, syncing customer’s data to Scale’s platform and back.
• Deploy and maintain Scale software at customer sites
• Develop customer requested features and work closely with them to ensure that they win customer love.
• Build robust and reliable backend systems that can serve as standalone products, empowering customers to accelerate their own AI ambitions.
• Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions.
• This role will require an active TS/SCI security clearance or the ability to obtain a security clearance.

Ideally you’d have:

• 5+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation
• 2+ years of prior engineering management or equivalent experience and has managed an engineering team.
• Track record of success as a hybrid customer facing engineer, forward deployed software engineer, and ability to quickly adapt to different roles.

• Prior experience developing with Python and JavaScript, or other modern software languages. Familiarity with Node and React is a plus.
• Cloud-Native Technologies: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in developing and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment. Understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus
• Linux experience: Understanding of shell scripting, operating systems, etc
• Networking experience: Understanding of networking technologies, configuration  (ports, protocols, etc) 
• Data Engineering: Knowledge of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and experience in building data pipelines to integrate and process diverse data sources. Understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and data governance principles
• Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand complex challenges and devise effective solutions. Ability to think critically, identify root causes, and propose innovative approaches to overcome technical obstacles
• Understand unique DoD and USG constraints when it comes to technology