Engagement Manager (Homeland Layered Defense), Public Sector
Scale AI · Washington, DC
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At a glance
Highlights
- Deliver agentic AI to orchestrate portfolio management for homeland defense
- Own relationships across layered defense portfolio from leaders to operators
- Lead user testing events, demos and engagement weeks onsite with customers
What they offer
- base salary
- equity
- comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- retirement benefits
- learning and development stipend
- generous PTO
Ideal candidate
Mission-driven delivery leader with deep operational empathy who thrives inside secure environments, translating frontline workflows into impactful AI. Trusted by senior leaders and operators alike and energized by hands-on adoption and mission impact.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- 5+ years of experience in technical program management, software engineering, systems engineering, product management, technical consulting, or a related technical delivery role
- Demonstrated ability to build trust with both senior executives and hands-on operational users
- Experience translating complex customer workflows into structured technical or product requirements
- Strong technical fluency and ability to discuss AI, software systems, data, and agentic workflows with engineering and product teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including with senior government leaders
- Comfort working extensively inside secure facilities and air-gapped government systems
- Willingness to travel 25-50% for onsite engagements, testing events, briefings, and customer meetings
Lab profile
About Scale AI
AI data foundry providing high-quality data for training, fine-tuning, and evaluating AI systems.
What they build
- Training, fine-tuning, and evaluation data for frontier models
- Multimodal and coding data for audio, image, video and world models
- Custom AI applications for enterprise and global public sector
Known for
- Leading data partner for frontier model developers
- Trusted across enterprise, defense and public sector
- Depth in multimodal, coding and physical AI
- End-to-end capability from strategy to delivery and evaluation
Key facts
- Founded in 2016
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Private company backed by Accel, Founders Fund, Index Ventures, Nvidia and Meta