Platform AI Engineer — CI/CD & Development Tools

Scale AI, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 252,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Retirement Benefits

Learning stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter Stipend

Job summary

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to redefine AI development tooling and the local development, build, test, and CD processes.

You will mentor engineers and drive improvements across practices, tools, and languages, collaborating with stakeholders to refine requirements. The role emphasizes strong communication, ownership of engineering projects, and deep experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms, particularly AWS.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation, with experience in build, test, or CI/CD systems.
• Extensive experience defining and evangelizing best-practices for AI development tools, including cost guardrails, security frameworks, and hosting knowledge-sharing sessions, among others.
• Extensive experience in software development and a deep understanding of distributed systems and public cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Experience configuring, testing, and enabling MCP servers, AI agents, and other associated systems.
• Show a track record of independent ownership of successful engineering projects.
• Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience working fluently with standard infrastructure, containerization, and deployment technologies like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Experience with modern web frameworks like NodeJS, NextJS, etc.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering best practices and CI/CD tooling (CircleCI, Helm, ArgoCD).

Responsibilities

• Define next-generation AI development tooling and frameworks using products like Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and MS Copilot, as well as in-house custom-built solutions.
• Drive the architecture, design, and implementation of our local development process, build, test, continuous integration, and continuous delivery systems, working closely with stakeholders and internal customers to understand and refine requirements.
• Directly mentor software engineers ranging from new grads to experienced engineers.
• Proactively identify opportunities and drive improvements to software development practices, processes, tools, and languages.
• Present technical information to teams and stakeholders, providing guidance and insight on development processes and technologies.

Skills

Distributed systems

CI/CD tooling

Public cloud

MCP servers & AI agents

Independent ownership

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

NodeJS

NextJS

CircleCI

Helm

ArgoCD

Job description

Scale AI, Inc. is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to redefine AI development tooling and the local development, build, test, and CD processes.

You will mentor engineers and drive improvements across practices, tools, and languages, collaborating with stakeholders to refine requirements. The role emphasizes strong communication, ownership of engineering projects, and deep experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms, particularly AWS.