# Senior Applied AI Engineer

About the role Scale's Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. As a Senior Applied AI Engineer, you'll own the AI behaviour of production systems our clients depend on, including the agents, evaluations, and backend integration behind them. You'll lead delivery for your workstream and act as the technical point of contact for clients on how their AI performs on live data. What you'll do Own the AI layer of production systems for public sector clients, including agents, model integration, and the backend services they run on Build production agents from established architectural patterns, with reliable tool calling, guardrails, and observability Select and adapt established evaluation methods, and design new evaluations for client-specific risks Apply context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, model adaptation, or inference optimisation Investigate regressions in the systems you own, lead root-cause analysis, and implement preventative changes Lead project planning for your workstream and manage client expectations on scope, risk, and delivery Codify recurring client work into reusable tooli

- **Id**: 3769128
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/scale-ai-senior-applied-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T17:46:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T11:33:50Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4715
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Government, LLM & Generative AI, AI Training Data & Annotation, AI Evaluation & Observability

## Company

- **Id**: 27
- **Name**: Scale AI
- **Domain**: scale.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/scale-ai>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 158
- **Ghost share**: 0.19
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 97
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T21:04:25Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Senior or Specialist Worker, Skilled Worker); Route: Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker; Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 97
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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