Software Engineer jobs in United States

Scale's public sector business is rapidly expanding, driven by our AI-powered decision-making platform and data labeling services for the Federal government and its customers. We are delivering advanced, mission-ready AI capabilities and seeking a hands-on Mission Engineering Manager to lead our mission software engineering team and field engineers in delivering our capabilities to customers. This role requires a deep understanding of the Federal government and its customers.

As a Mission Engineering Manager, you will balance technical product planning in the context of customer engagements, coding, and managing a growing team (6-8 engineers). Your responsibilities will include hiring, training, and leading a high-performing engineering team, ensuring successful outcomes for public sector customers. You will provide technical leadership and mentorship, drive engineering productivity, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute to drive value for customers. You will navigate complex public sector compliance requirements, tailor capabilities to customer requirements, and develop integrations with legacy federal information systems to deliver real impact for mission owners.

Day to day:

• 50% Software engineering - customer technical requirement elicitation, technical product planning, and coding
• 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 researchers and engineers working on Generative AI projects
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver on customer requirements
• Navigate and deliver outcomes while navigating complex public sector compliance requirements and frameworks
• Design and implement software solutions for Federal customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure
• Develop distributed systems, data-intensive applications, and machine learning infrastructure to enable real impact for mission owners
• Provide technical leadership for 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 Federal business
• Active TS/SCI clearance required

Must be able to commute to DC office two times per week. This role requires a TS/SCI clearance, ability to commute to our DC office, travel to customer sites, and attend events.

• 4+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation
• 2+ years of prior engineering management or equivalent experience and has managed an engineering team
• Extensive experience in software development
• Experience in Department of Defense and/or Intelligence Community software development
• Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startups
• Excitement to work with AI technologies and their applications for the public sector
• Strong track record as an individual contributor
• Record of mentoring and leading teams in successful projects
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• Deep technical knowledge of Software Development; willingness to solve problems hands-on with the team
• Experience with AI platforms and technologies, including generative models and LLMs
• Experience in government or government-facing technology roles
• Experience with cloud-native technologies, full stack development, data engineering, and MLOps infrastructure

The base salary range for this full-time position in Washington DC is $219,420—$263,304 USD. Compensation packages may include base salary, equity, and benefits. You’ll also receive benefits including comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO. The role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

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