Senior Mission Software Engineer — Public Sector On-Site

Scale AI, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision coverage

Equity compensation

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Job summary

Scale AI, Inc. seeks a hybrid, customer-facing Software Engineer to work with U.S. government customers on the Public Sector Engineering team. You will own delivery from prototype to production, embed with agencies, and ship backend and data integration work that scales across engagements.

You'll collaborate with product and engineering, guide adoption, and be the technical point of contact for stakeholders, applying strong Python/TypeScript skills and a TS/SCI clearance where required.

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.

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

TS/SCI clearance

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Linux & Networking

Tools

Node.js

React

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Scale AI, Inc. seeks a hybrid, customer-facing Software Engineer to work with U.S. government customers on the Public Sector Engineering team. You will own delivery from prototype to production, embed with agencies, and ship backend and data integration work that scales across engagements.

You'll collaborate with product and engineering, guide adoption, and be the technical point of contact for stakeholders, applying strong Python/TypeScript skills and a TS/SCI clearance where required.