Engineering Manager, Global Public Sector

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale is seeking a Technical and Strategic Engineering Manager to lead the International Engineering effort for public sector AI applications. You will design, build, and optimize backend services for AI-driven solutions, focusing on agents, evaluation tooling, and automation.

You will mentor engineers, drive delivery, and work cross-functionally with internal teams and external customers. The role requires strong leadership, a track record of shipping at scale, and the ability to turn business

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering leadership, with team-building experience.
• Proven ability to deliver backend services for AI-driven applications.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering team and drive technical delivery across global programs.
• Architect and optimize backend services for AI agents, evaluation tooling, and automation.
• Mentor engineers and shape engineering culture and processes.
• Collaborate with product, design, and customers to ship features end-to-end.

Skills

Engineering management

Backend engineering

Cross-functional collaboration

Product experience

Mentoring

Tools

AI platforms

APIs

Job description

Scale’s rapidly growing International Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. Our core work consists of:

• Creating custom AI applications that will impact millions of citizens

• Generating high-quality training data for national LLMs

• Upskilling and advisory services to spread the impact of AI

Our Scale Generative AI Platform (SGP) powers production-grade GenAI applications with foundational services, APIs, and infrastructure that accelerate adoption across industries. As more of these applications move from prototype to production, we are investing heavily in the core platform that enables this scale.

We are looking for a technical and strategic Engineering Manager to lead our Engineering efforts Internationally to power custom applications we build for our public sector clients.

At Scale, we’re not just building AI solutions—we’re enabling the public sector to transform their operations and better serve citizens through cutting-edge technology. If you’re ready to shape the future of AI in the public sector and be a founding member of our team, we’d love to hear from you.

You will:

• Manage the engineering team and drive technical delivery.

• Design, build, and optimize backend services for advanced AI-driven applications, focusing on AI agents, evaluation tooling, and automation.

• Comfortable working cross functionally, whether that be internal or external customers

• Work across the entire product lifecycle from conceptualization through production

• Build features end-to-end, system design, debugging and testing

• Deliver experiments at a high velocity and level of quality to engage our customers

• Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team

• Inspire and mentor engineers.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new product features and experiences

Ideally you’d have:

• At least 5 years of relevant experience and at least 2 years of experience managing back engineers is preferred

• Proven success in leading, managing, and developing high-performing Engineering teams

• Expertise in identifying product engagement patterns and trends for large scale consumer products

• Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale

• Desire to work in a very fast-paced environment

• Ability to turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions

• Excellent problem-solving skills, and be able to work independently or as part of a team

***PLEASE NOTE:Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants.*

About Us:

*At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst& Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.*

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