Senior Mission Software Engineer - Government Embedded

Scale AI; Colorado Springs (CO); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement benefits

Learning stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI is building the AI systems behind critical government decisions. On the Public Sector Engineering team, you will embed with U.S. government customers, own delivery from prototype to production, and ship software that customers rely on in the field.

This hybrid, customer-facing role requires 5+ years of software engineering, strong Python and TypeScript, cloud experience, and an active TS/SCI clearance. You’ll collaborate with product and engineering 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 modern languages).
• Comfort across the stack, including cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containers, Linux, and networking fundamentals.

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 basics

TS/SCI clearance

Independent work

Tools

Node

React

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Scale AI is building the AI systems behind critical government decisions. On the Public Sector Engineering team, you will embed with U.S. government customers, own delivery from prototype to production, and ship software that customers rely on in the field.

This hybrid, customer-facing role requires 5+ years of software engineering, strong Python and TypeScript, cloud experience, and an active TS/SCI clearance. You’ll collaborate with product and engineering to maximize mission impact.