Hybrid Forward-Deployed Software Engineer, Public Sector

Scale AI; Colorado Springs (CO); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health coverage

Dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI's Forward Deployed Software Engineer role sits on the Public Sector Engineering team, embedding with U.S. government customers to build and deploy AI applications for critical missions.

You will own delivery from prototype to production and ship software that customers rely on in the field. This hybrid, customer-facing position requires building robust backend systems and data integrations, partnering with product and engineering to feed field signals back into the roadmap, and acting

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including customer-facing or government contexts.
• Strong production coding in Python and TypeScript.
• Comfort across the stack, including cloud platforms and containers.
• 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

Containers

Active TS/SCI clearance

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Node

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Node.js

React

Job description

Scale AI's Forward Deployed Software Engineer role sits on the Public Sector Engineering team, embedding with U.S. government customers to build and deploy AI applications for critical missions.

You will own delivery from prototype to production and ship software that customers rely on in the field. This hybrid, customer-facing position requires building robust backend systems and data integrations, partnering with product and engineering to feed field signals back into the roadmap, and acting