engineering
Posted 2 weeks agoStaff Full-Stack Software Engineer, (Forward Deployed), GPS
at scaleai
London, United KingdomOn-site
Responsibilities
- Architect the fundamental frameworks for production-grade AI applications, setting the gold standard for how interactive UIs, backend systems, and AI models are integrated at scale to deliver reliable outcomes.
- Guide the evolution of cloud infrastructure, ensuring security, global scalability, and long-term system integrity across all environments.
- Direct the development of core platforms and shared services, ensuring they solve cross-cutting needs for diverse global client use cases.
- Proven track record of building LLM-driven solutions with the strategic foresight to anticipate landscape shifts and architect future-proof systems.
Requirements
- Scale’s rapidly growing Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. Our core work consists of:
- Creating custom AI applications that will impact millions of citizens
- Upskilling and advisory services to spread the impact of AI
- As a Full Stack Software Engineer (Forward Deployed), you’ll collaborate directly with public sector counterparts to quickly build full-stack, AI applications, to solve their most pressing challenges and achieve meaningful impact for citizens.
- At Scale, we’re not just building AI solutions—we’re enabling the public sector to transform their operations and better serve citizens through cutting-edge technology.
- If you’re ready to shape the future of AI in the public sector and be a founding member of our team, we’d love to hear from you. You will:
- Masters or Phd in Computer Science or equivalent deep industry
- experience in architecting complex, distributed systems.
- Expert ability to design and oversee production-grade ecosystems, ensuring world-class standards for system integrity, security, and long-term scalability. Extensive
- experience working at a startup as a CTO or founding engineer or in a forward deployed engineer / dedicated customer engineer role •
- Experience working cross functionally with operations
- 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.
Benefits
- A self-driven leader capable of resolving extreme ambiguity, mentoring senior staff, and setting the technical vision for the organization.
- 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
- Generating high-quality training data for custom LLMs
- Serve as the lead technical strategist for public sector engagements, converting ambiguous mission
- requirements into robust architectural roadmaps and guiding onsite implementation
- Partner with cross-functional leadership to steer the technical roadmap, mentoring senior and junior staff and ensuring all products align with a cohesive, future-proof technical architecture.
- Bridge the gap between the field and the core platform by turning real-world client lessons into the reusable patterns that power the entire engineering team. Ideally you’d have:
- experience deploying and troubleshooting sophisticated end-to-end solutions directly within complex, high-security client environments.
- A driver of asynchronous workflows and documentation-first cultures to streamline global engineering velocity and reduce friction.
- PLEASE NOTE: Our policy requires a 90-day waiting period before reconsidering candidates for the same role. This allows us to ensure a fair and thorough evaluation of all applicants. About Us:
- We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force.
- We believe that everyone should be able to bring their whole selves to work, which is why we are proud to be an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace.