Senior Frontier AI Systems Engineer (Forward Deployed)

Scale; New York, San Francisco (NY, CA); On-site; USD 252,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Scale is seeking a Senior Frontier Agent Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering) in New York to architect, integrate, deploy, and operate production AI systems for strategic enterprise customers.

Youll combine software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and frontier AI to evolve cutting-edge models into reliable enterprise software. Collaboration with customer teams is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering with distributed systems fundamentals.
• Strong Python programming for production software.
• Experience building or deploying AI-powered apps using modern LLM APIs and tooling.
• Hands-on with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and production infra.
• Excellent communication and ability to work with enterprise teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy production AI systems for enterprise environments.
• Design scalable agent architectures integrating LLMs, retrieval, memory, and tools.
• Build robust integrations with customer systems ensuring security and governance.
• Prototype new capabilities and evolve prototypes into production-ready systems.
• Develop agent runtimes, orchestration, context pipelines, and tooling.
• Ensure reliability, observability, latency, and safe production deployment.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

Cloud platforms

Problem-solving

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Scale is seeking a Senior Frontier Agent Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering) in New York to architect, integrate, deploy, and operate production AI systems for strategic enterprise customers.

Youll combine software engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and frontier AI to evolve cutting-edge models into reliable enterprise software. Collaboration with customer teams is essential.