Public Sector Forward-Deployed Software Engineer

Scale AI; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 165,600 - 263,304; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking an experienced software engineer for a hybrid role on the Public Sector Engineering team in the United States. You will embed with government customers, own delivery from prototype to production, and ship software used in critical missions.

You will build backend systems and data integrations, partner with product and engineering, and act as the technical lead for customer stakeholders to maximize 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 languages).
• 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

Kubernetes

Docker

Linux

Networking fundamentals

Ambiguity tolerance

TS/SCI clearance

Tools

Node.js

React

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Scale AI is seeking an experienced software engineer for a hybrid role on the Public Sector Engineering team in the United States. You will embed with government customers, own delivery from prototype to production, and ship software used in critical missions.

You will build backend systems and data integrations, partner with product and engineering, and act as the technical lead for customer stakeholders to maximize mission impact.