Public Sector AI Deployment Engineer

FDE Times; Colorado Springs (CO); Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 263,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale is hiring for a Public Sector Engineer to embed with U.S. government customers, delivering end-to-end software solutions from prototype to production.

The role blends hands-on backend work with customer-facing delivery, requiring strong Python/TypeScript skills and cloud experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP. Expect significant on-site collaboration and 25%+ travel, with relocation options to support mission impact.

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.
• 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

Networking

TS/SCI clearance

Customer-facing

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Scale is hiring for a Public Sector Engineer to embed with U.S. government customers, delivering end-to-end software solutions from prototype to production.

The role blends hands-on backend work with customer-facing delivery, requiring strong Python/TypeScript skills and cloud experience across AWS, Azure, or GCP. Expect significant on-site collaboration and 25%+ travel, with relocation options to support mission impact.