# Staff Software Engineer, AI Developer Tooling

Software is eating the world, but AI is eating software. We live in unprecedented times - AI has the potential to exponentially augment human intelligence. Every person will have a personal tutor, coach, assistant, personal shopper, travel guide, and therapist throughout life. As the world adjusts to this new reality, leading platform companies are scrambling to build LLMs at billion scale, while large enterprises figure out how to add it to their products. At Scale, our products include the Generative AI Data Engine, SGP, Donovan, and others that power the most advanced LLMs and generative models in the world through world-class RLHF, human data generation, model evaluation, safety, and alignment. The data we are producing is some of the most important work for how humanity will interact with AI. At the foundation of these products is the Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will redefine how engineers develop, build, test, and deploy software at Scale using AI development tools in addition to traditional practices. You’ll also get widespread exposure to the forefront of the AI race as Scale sees it in enterprises, startups, governments, and large tech companies. You will

- **Id**: 3850584
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/scale-ai-staff-software-engineer-ai-developer-tooling>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States, New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T22:26:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T22:08:57Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6727
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: 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**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 252000
- **Max**: 315000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 315000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CircleCI** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Copilot** — Optional: no
- **Cursor** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Helm** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **Node JS** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI Codex** — Optional: no
- **RLHF** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Bazel** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T03:00:02Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 97
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 315000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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