Mission-Critical AI Software Engineer - Public Sector

Scale AI, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 223,200 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Retirement benefits

Learning stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI, Inc. seeks an experienced software engineer on the Public Sector Engineering team to embed directly with U.S. government customers and deliver production-grade AI-enabled solutions.

You will own delivery end-to-end from prototype to production, build robust backend systems, and connect customer environments to Scale's platform while collaborating with product and engineering to guide roadmap adoption. This is a hybrid, on-site role with travel and security clearances expected.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in customer-facing, forward-deployed, or government contexts.
• Strong production coding in Python and TypeScript (or comparable modern languages).
• 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.
• 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

5+ years

Python

TypeScript

Cloud platforms

Linux & networking

TS/SCI clearance

Job description

Scale AI, Inc. seeks an experienced software engineer on the Public Sector Engineering team to embed directly with U.S. government customers and deliver production-grade AI-enabled solutions.

You will own delivery end-to-end from prototype to production, build robust backend systems, and connect customer environments to Scale's platform while collaborating with product and engineering to guide roadmap adoption. This is a hybrid, on-site role with travel and security clearances expected.