Public Sector Mission Software Engineer — On-Site Delivery

Scale AI; Omaha (NE); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI’s Public Sector Engineering team is hiring a hybrid customer-facing engineer who will embed with U.S. government customers to design and deploy AI-powered solutions that support critical missions.

You’ll own delivery from prototype to production, build backend systems and data integrations, and work with product and engineering to translate field signals into roadmap capabilities. Applicants should have 5+ years in software engineering, strong Python and TypeScript, cloud and container

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in customer-facing, forward-deployed, or government contexts.
• Strong production coding in Python and TypeScript.
• Comfort across the stack, including cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/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 fundamentals

TS/SCI clearance

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Node.js

React

Job description

Scale AI’s Public Sector Engineering team is hiring a hybrid customer-facing engineer who will embed with U.S. government customers to design and deploy AI-powered solutions that support critical missions.

You’ll own delivery from prototype to production, build backend systems and data integrations, and work with product and engineering to translate field signals into roadmap capabilities. Applicants should have 5+ years in software engineering, strong Python and TypeScript, cloud and container