Foundational Platform Engineer for AI-Scale Infra

Scale AI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health, dental andVision

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer to design and develop foundational data platforms and cloud infrastructure, enabling scalable AI research and production workflows.

You will work across teams to refine requirements and deliver new capabilities in distributed systems and containerized environments. You will engage with stakeholders, drive architectural decisions, and promote best practices in CI/CD, monitoring, and deployment automation while aligning with Scale's RLHF and AI safety

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation with specialities in back-end systems.
• Extensive experience in software development and a deep understanding of distributed systems and public cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Proven track record of independent ownership of successful engineering projects.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design, and implementation of our foundational platforms and systems, working closely with stakeholders and internal customers to understand and refine requirements.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
• Proactively identifying opportunities for, and driving improvements to, current programming practices, including process enhancements and tool upgrades.
• Presenting technical information to teams and stakeholders, providing guidance and insight on development processes and technologies.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Independent ownership

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

Temporal

AWS Step Functions

MongoDB

Postgres

CircleCI

Job description

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a Platform Engineer to design and develop foundational data platforms and cloud infrastructure, enabling scalable AI research and production workflows.

You will work across teams to refine requirements and deliver new capabilities in distributed systems and containerized environments. You will engage with stakeholders, drive architectural decisions, and promote best practices in CI/CD, monitoring, and deployment automation while aligning with Scale's RLHF and AI safety