Senior Applied AI Engineer - Governance & Safe AI

scaleai; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI's Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. As a Staff Applied AI Engineer, you'll raise the bar for how AI gets built, governed, and evaluated across the team.

You'll define standards for responsible AI, model governance, and production MLOps that other engineers adopt, while acting as the senior technical voice for the most sensitive AI decisions our clients face.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience with AI/ML systems in production.
• Experience judging the quality of training data and evaluating fine-tuning results.
• Experience owning an AI-powered product end to end.
• Track record establishing standards such as evaluation methodologies or MLOps practices.
• Comfort operating with executive-level clients and leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define standards for responsible AI, model governance, and production MLOps adopted broadly across the Global Public Sector team.
• Build or validate high-risk parts of strategic AI systems and set standards for others to adopt.
• Architect AI systems to prevent systemic failure and lead incident resolution for model safety or data integrity.
• Build reusable AI capabilities and evaluation methodologies that other engineers and clients can build on.
• Advise on which new AI developments are worth adopting and help set the technical roadmap.
• Act as the senior technical partner to client leadership on AI strategy.
• Coach Senior Applied AI Engineers and build scalable systems that enable multiple teams to deliver safer AI.
• Contribute to recruiting and representing Scale's AI work externally.

Skills

AI/ML systems

Production ownership

Standards & governance

Stakeholder communication

Regulated deployment

Job description

Scale AI's Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. As a Staff Applied AI Engineer, you'll raise the bar for how AI gets built, governed, and evaluated across the team.

You'll define standards for responsible AI, model governance, and production MLOps that other engineers adopt, while acting as the senior technical voice for the most sensitive AI decisions our clients face.