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Scale AI

Senior Mission Software Engineer, Public Sector

AI summary of the role

Senior forward-deployed engineer embedded with U.S. government customers (Army, Air Force, Joint commands, IC) to build and deploy AI applications on Scale's platform.

What you’ll do

  • Embed with government customers to understand mission and scope problems into working software
  • Own delivery end-to-end: design, build, deploy, and maintain solutions at customer sites
  • Build robust backend systems and data integrations connecting customer environments to Scale's platform
  • Partner with product and engineering to feed field signals into the roadmap

What you’ll bring

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally customer-facing, forward-deployed, or government contexts
  • Strong production coding in Python and TypeScript (or comparable modern languages)
  • Comfort across the stack: cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containers, Linux, networking fundamentals
  • Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

Technologies

Python · TypeScript · AWS · Azure · GCP · Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · Node · React · LLM · ETL

About Scale AI

Data, evals, and GenAI platform for frontier labs, enterprises, and governments — the picks-and-shovels layer for production AI.

Series G

Source and classification

Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:

At Scale, we build the AI systems behind some of the country's most important decisions. On the Public Sector Engineering team, you'll embed directly with U.S. government customers, including the Army, Air Force, Joint commands and Intelligence Community, to build and deploy AI applications that support their most critical missions. This is a hybrid customer-facing engineering role. You'll sit with the people whose problems you're solving, own delivery from first prototype to production, and ship software that customers adopt and rely on in the field. Model performance matters, timelines are urgent, and ambiguity is the norm. Your work directly shapes what Scale's platform can do for the public sector. What you'll do Embed with government customers to understand their mission, scope the problem, and turn it into working software. Own delivery end-to-end: design, build, deploy, and
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