Embedded AI Systems Engineer for Public Sector Missions

United States Digital Space LLC; Austin, Washington (TX, District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Equity-based compensation

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale is hiring a hybrid customer-facing software engineer to embed with U.S. government customers, delivering from prototype to production.

You will build backend systems, connect customer environments to Scale’s platform, and collaborate with product and engineering to shape the roadmap with field feedback. Expecting 5+ years of experience with Python/TypeScript, cloud, containers, Linux, and a TS/SCI clearance or eligibility.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in customer-facing, forward-deployed, or government contexts.
• Strong production coding in Python and TypeScript (or comparable modern languages).
• Comfort across the stack, including cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containers, Linux, and networking fundamentals.
• Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and make sound trade-offs under pressure.
• An active TS/SCI clearance, or eligibility to obtain one.

Responsibilities

• Embed with government customers to understand their mission, scope the problem, and turn it into working software.
• Own delivery end-to-end: design, build, deploy, and maintain solutions at customer sites, from prototype to stable production.
• Build robust backend systems and data integrations that connect customer environments to Scale’s platform and back.
• Partner with product and engineering to feed field signals back into the roadmap, so the patterns you build once become capabilities the whole team can reuse.
• Serve as the technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, guiding adoption and maximizing mission impact.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Cloud platforms

Linux

Networking fundamentals

TS/SCI clearance

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Scale is hiring a hybrid customer-facing software engineer to embed with U.S. government customers, delivering from prototype to production.

You will build backend systems, connect customer environments to Scale’s platform, and collaborate with product and engineering to shape the roadmap with field feedback. Expecting 5+ years of experience with Python/TypeScript, cloud, containers, Linux, and a TS/SCI clearance or eligibility.