engineering
Posted 5 days agoForward Deployed Software Engineer, Public Sector
at scaleai
Austin, United StatesHybrid
Responsibilities
- Model performance matters, timelines are urgent, and ambiguity is the norm.
- 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.
Requirements
- At Scale, we build the AI systems behind some of the country's most important decisions.
- On the Public Sector Engineering team, you'll embed directly with U.S. government customers, including the Army, Air Force, Joint commands and Intelligence Community, to build and deploy AI applications that support their most critical missions.
- 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.
- Familiarity with Node and React, Kubernetes and Docker, and Terraform.
- Data engineering background covering ETL pipelines, data modeling, and data governance. Location and travel
- At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions.
- Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact.
- We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.
Experience
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in customer-facing, forward-deployed, or government contexts.
Benefits
- An active TS/SCI clearance, or eligibility to obtain one. Bonus •
- Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits.
- The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position and may be inclusive of several career levels at Scale; it will be determined during the interview process based on work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, qualifications, interview performance, and relevant education or training.
- Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval.
- Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process, and confirm whether the hired role will be eligible for equity grant. You'll also receive
- benefits including, but not limited to: comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO.
- benefits such as a commuter stipend.
- For pay transparency purposes, the base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of San Francisco, New York, Seattle is: $184,000 — $292,560 USD The base salary range for this full-time position in the locations of Hawaii, Washington DC, Texas, Colorado is: $165,600 — $263,304 USD The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of St. Louis is: $138,000 — $219,420 USD
- The base salary range for this full-time position in the location of Honolulu, Hawaii is: $138,000 — $219,420 USD
- We comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision .
Contact
- If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at accommodations@scale.com.
Additional details
- This is a hybrid customer-facing engineering role.
- You'll sit with the people whose problems you're solving, own delivery from first prototype to production, and ship software that customers adopt and rely on in the field.
- Your work directly shapes what Scale's platform can do for the public sector. What you'll do
- Embed with government customers to understand their mission, scope the problem, and turn it into working software.
- 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. What we're looking for Required
- Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
- This role requires significant time on-site with customers. Expect 25% travel with up to 50% travel as necessary, and/or relocation to Washington DC or St. Louis.
- Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional
- Please reference the job posting's subtitle for where this position will be located.