Engineering Platform Lead: AI Connectivity & APIs

Scale AI; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 216,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a senior leader for our Customer Platform Team in a hybrid role based in New York City or San Francisco. You will own large product areas, drive API integration, and shape connectivity strategy across internal users and customers.

The role focuses on building end-to-end features, mentoring engineers, and delivering high-velocity, high-quality experiments. You will influence culture and processes in a fast-paced environment, collaborating across teams to meet evolving customer

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of relevant experience preferred.
• 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; able to work independently or with a team.

Responsibilities

• Own large areas within our product.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal and external customers.
• Build features end-to-end: front-end, back-end, systems, testing.
• Deliver experiments at high velocity and quality to engage customers.
• Drive the product lifecycle from conceptualization through production.
• Influence culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team.
• Inspire and mentor less experienced engineers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Independent or team work

Adaptability under pressure

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a senior leader for our Customer Platform Team in a hybrid role based in New York City or San Francisco. You will own large product areas, drive API integration, and shape connectivity strategy across internal users and customers.

The role focuses on building end-to-end features, mentoring engineers, and delivering high-velocity, high-quality experiments. You will influence culture and processes in a fast-paced environment, collaborating across teams to meet evolving customer