Production AI Engineer - Public Sector

FDE Times; Kuwait City; On-site; KWD 10,000 - 18,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale's Global Public Sector team builds AI that runs in production systems for national health and government organisations. As an Applied AI Engineer, you'll own components from implementation to delivery, such as model integration, agent tooling, APIs, data pipelines, or evaluation, ensuring reliable operation on real data.

You will work with client teams to capture requirements, ship features, and debug production issues, while contributing to evaluations within an established framework and

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping production software, with proficiency in Python and working knowledge of at least one of TypeScript, Java, or C++.
• Hands-on experience integrating models or AI/ML components into a production application, such as calling LLMs, building retrieval or agent tooling, or deploying a trained model.
• A working understanding of ML evaluation: how to read results, spot regressions, and identify common causes of model failure.
• Experience owning a defined piece of work through testing, release, and production debugging.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a data-driven approach to iterating on models and datasets.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including raising blockers and trade-offs early.

Responsibilities

• Own the implementation, testing, and delivery of defined AI components within an established system design.
• Build agent tools, model integrations, and the backend services and APIs they depend on.
• Run and extend evaluations within an established framework, interpret results, investigate common failure modes, and flag regressions.
• Debug production issues in the components you own and resolve them using the team's engineering practices.
• Communicate progress and blockers early, and take responsibility for delivery dates within your scope.
• Work directly with client teams on the requirements and feedback for your components.
• Share what you learn with the team as you build public sector domain expertise.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Java

C++

Model integration

Production debugging

ML evaluation

Job description

Scale's Global Public Sector team builds AI that runs in production systems for national health and government organisations. As an Applied AI Engineer, you'll own components from implementation to delivery, such as model integration, agent tooling, APIs, data pipelines, or evaluation, ensuring reliable operation on real data.

You will work with client teams to capture requirements, ship features, and debug production issues, while contributing to evaluations within an established framework and