Senior Mission Software Engineer – Public Sector, Onsite

Scale AI; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 279,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Learning and development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI is seeking a seasoned software engineer for the Public Sector Engineering team to embed with U.S. government customers, including the Army, Air Force, and Intelligence Community, delivering AI applications from prototype to production.

You will work hybrid, sit with customers, own delivery end-to-end, and build backend systems connecting their environments to Scale’s platform, while shaping roadmaps with field feedback.

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, 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

Software engineering

Python

TypeScript

Cloud platforms

TS/SCI clearance

Tools

Node.js

React

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Scale AI is seeking a seasoned software engineer for the Public Sector Engineering team to embed with U.S. government customers, including the Army, Air Force, and Intelligence Community, delivering AI applications from prototype to production.

You will work hybrid, sit with customers, own delivery end-to-end, and build backend systems connecting their environments to Scale’s platform, while shaping roadmaps with field feedback.