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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.\nThis 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. Model performance matters, timelines are urgent, and ambiguity is the norm. Your work directly shapes what Scale's platform can do for the public sector.\nWhat you'll do\nEmbed with government customers to understand their mission, scope the problem, and turn it into working software.\nOwn delivery end-to-end: design, build, deploy, and maintain solutions at customer sites, from prototype to stable production.\nBuild robust backend systems and data integrations that connect customer environments to Scale's platform and back.\nPartner 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.\nServe as the technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, guiding adoption and maximizing mission impact.\nWhat we're looking for\nRequired\n5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in customer-facing, forward-deployed, or government contexts.\nStrong production coding in Python and TypeScript (or comparable modern languages).\nComfort across the stack, including cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containers, Linux, and networking fundamentals.\nAbility to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and make sound trade-offs under pressure.\nAn active TS/SCI clearance.\nBonus\nExperience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models.\nFamiliarity with Node and React, Kubernetes and Docker, and Terraform.\nData engineering background covering ETL pipelines, data modeling, and data governance.\nLocation and travel\nThis 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.\nCompensation 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. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.\nThe base salary range for this full-time position in the location of Washington DC/Hawaii is:\n$223,200—$279,000 USD\nThe base salary range for this full-time position in the location of St. Louis/Suffolk is:\n$186,000—$233,000 USD\nPLEASE 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.\nAbout Us:\nAt 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 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 are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.\nWe 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. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability status, gender identity or Veteran status. \nWe are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation in the application or recruiting process due to a disability, please contact us at . Please see the United States Department of Labor's Know Your Rights poster for additional information.\nWe comply with the United States Department of Labor's Pay Transparency provision. \nPLEASE NOTE: We collect, retain and use personal data for our professional business purposes, including notifying you of job opportunities that may be of interest and sharing with our affiliates. We limit the personal data we collect to that which we believe is appropriate and necessary to manage applicants’ needs, provide our services, and comply with applicable laws. Any information we collect in connection with your application will be treated in accordance with our internal policies and programs designed to protect personal data. 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