Embedded Public Sector AI Engineer

Scale AI, Inc.; Honolulu (HI); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 219,420; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a hybrid, customer-facing software engineer to embed with U.S. government customers on the Public Sector Engineering team.

You’ll own delivery from prototype to production, building robust backend systems and data integrations that connect customer environments to Scale’s platform. You’ll partner with product and engineering to feed field signals into the roadmap and guide adoption with customer stakeholders.

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 (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Linux

Networking

Independent in ambiguous environments

TS/SCI clearance

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Node

React

Job description

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a hybrid, customer-facing software engineer to embed with U.S. government customers on the Public Sector Engineering team.

You’ll own delivery from prototype to production, building robust backend systems and data integrations that connect customer environments to Scale’s platform. You’ll partner with product and engineering to feed field signals into the roadmap and guide adoption with customer stakeholders.