Frontier AI Systems Engineer — Production for Enterprise

Scale; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale AI seeks a Frontier Agent Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering) to work directly with strategic enterprise customers to architect, integrate, deploy, and operate production AI systems. You will combine modern software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and frontier AI technologies to transform cutting‑edge models into reliable enterprise software.

Unlike traditional roles, you’ll operate at the intersection of AI and enterprise engineering, designing production agent

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering in distributed systems.
• Strong Python production software experience.
• Experience deploying AI-powered apps using LLM APIs.
• Cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Strong problem solving and communication with enterprise teams.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous requirements and iterate toward production solutions.

Responsibilities

• Architect enterprise AI systems and agent platforms.
• Design integrations across cloud infrastructure and enterprise software.
• Deploy AI agents into production environments.
• Develop runtimes, orchestration, and context pipelines for production AI.
• Establish reliability, observability, and governance for AI systems.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud platforms

Production software

Communication

Problem solving

Enterprise collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

LLM APIs

Vector databases

Retrieval systems

Job description

Scale AI seeks a Frontier Agent Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering) to work directly with strategic enterprise customers to architect, integrate, deploy, and operate production AI systems. You will combine modern software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and frontier AI technologies to transform cutting‑edge models into reliable enterprise software.

Unlike traditional roles, you’ll operate at the intersection of AI and enterprise engineering, designing production agent