Hybrid Public Sector Mission AI Engineer

Scale AI, Inc.; Honolulu (HI); Hybrid; USD 223,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental and Vision

Retirement benefits

Learning & development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Public Sector Engineering team. This hybrid, customer-facing role embeds with U.S.

government customers to deliver production software from prototype to deployment and to support mission-critical decisions. You will own end-to-end delivery, build backend systems and data integrations, and collaborate with product and engineering to feed field signals into the roadmap. Significant on-site work with customers and travel will be required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in customer-facing contexts.
• Strong production coding in Python and TypeScript.
• 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.

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

Containers

Linux

Networking

TS/SCI clearance

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Public Sector Engineering team. This hybrid, customer-facing role embeds with U.S.

government customers to deliver production software from prototype to deployment and to support mission-critical decisions. You will own end-to-end delivery, build backend systems and data integrations, and collaborate with product and engineering to feed field signals into the roadmap. Significant on-site work with customers and travel will be required.