Strategic AI Programs Lead — Public Sector

AI Chopping Block; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental & vision coverage

Equity-based compensation

Learning & development stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI’s Public Sector team is expanding its Generative AI focus, seeking a Strategic Projects lead to drive high-impact programs from data labeling to training data creation for LLMs. You will collaborate with engineering, operations, and 客戶 engagement to ensure scalable, economically sound solutions.

You will own data pipelines, optimize workflows, and manage COGS while partnering with ML and GTM teams to scope engagements and validate feasibility.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in product development, data science, or operations.
• Ability to analyze complex operational data, build queries, and identify trends to inform decisions and optimize processes.
• Technical aptitude to understand post-training techniques such as supervised fine tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning through human feedback (RLHF), Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) etc

Responsibilities

• Develop, build, and maintain the operations infrastructure required to ensure data labeling pipelines are efficient, scalable, and produce high-quality outputs.
• Take ownership of day-to-day progress on high-priority data production pipelines, ensuring projects move forward efficiently.
• Partner with our Machine Learning and Go-to-Market teams to scope customer engagements via taxonomy design and technical feasibility validation to ensure deals are scalable and executable.
• Influence cross-org collaboration to define and advance human data strategy, influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure data quality, scalability, and long-term platform leverage.
• Own the financial health of programs by managing project-level COGS through workforce planning, tooling decisions, and process optimization.
• Partner with subject matter experts in their fields to validate the quality of our data and to translate deep domain knowledge into scalable processes and measurable outcomes
• Work closely with customers to understand their requirements and design data taxonomies that optimize model performance.
• Utilize analytics and data visualization tools to track progress, identify bottlenecks, and make data-driven decisions to optimize pipeline performance
• Own larger and larger components of our data delivery processes, until you ultimately serve as the full owner of our most visible and high impact customer pipelines

Skills

Project management

Data analysis

Operations

Technical aptitude

Ambiguity handling

Education

Technical degree in computer science, data science, or engineering

Job description

Scale AI’s Public Sector team is expanding its Generative AI focus, seeking a Strategic Projects lead to drive high-impact programs from data labeling to training data creation for LLMs. You will collaborate with engineering, operations, and 客戶 engagement to ensure scalable, economically sound solutions.

You will own data pipelines, optimize workflows, and manage COGS while partnering with ML and GTM teams to scope engagements and validate feasibility.