Senior ML Engineer — Public Sector, Agentic AI Architect

Scale AI; Quinte West; On-site; CAD 333,000 - 417,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement benefits

Learning stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to own how we apply generative and agentic AI, computer vision, and reinforcement learning to mission-critical government systems. You will design, build, and evaluate end-to-end agent capabilities, applying state-of-the-art models in production with security and compliance in mind.

You will influence patterns, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and research teams to scope high-impact initiatives, including for upcoming product

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and deploying applied ML systems in production environments.
• Extensive experience with GenAI, Agentic AI, NLP, deep learning or computer vision in production.
• Track record of owning architectural decisions and defending tradeoffs.
• Experience shipping agentic systems with real production traffic and evaluation rigor.
• Strong programming skills in Python, experience in PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Experience mentoring or reviewing other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and delivery of agent capabilities end to end — architecture, implementation, evaluation.
• Define new patterns in uncharted problem spaces and lead the work to build them.
• Put state-of-the-art models into production to solve customer problems.
• Maintain and improve production models and agents through retraining and tuning.
• Build agent evaluation benchmarks, LLM judges and verifiers to improve performance.

Skills

GenAI

Agentic AI

NLP

Deep Learning

Computer Vision

Python

PyTorch

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

TensorFlow

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to own how we apply generative and agentic AI, computer vision, and reinforcement learning to mission-critical government systems. You will design, build, and evaluate end-to-end agent capabilities, applying state-of-the-art models in production with security and compliance in mind.

You will influence patterns, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and research teams to scope high-impact initiatives, including for upcoming product