Senior Mission Software Engineer, Public Sector
Scale AI · Austin, TX; Colorado Springs, CO; Honolulu, HI; Omaha, NE; St. Louis, MO; Washington, DC · Washington, DC
CHECKED 14H AGO
Infrastructureonsitesenior$223k–$279k
At a glance
Highlights
- Embed with Army, Air Force and Intel customers to build AI for critical missions.
- Own delivery end-to-end from first prototype to stable production in the field.
- Turn field learnings into reusable capabilities across Scale's platform.
What they offer
- Equity compensation
- Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Learning and development stipend
- Generous PTO
- Commuter stipend
Ideal candidate
A mission-driven, customer-obsessed engineer who thrives in ambiguity and loves embedding with users. You take ownership from prototype to production and want your AI work to support critical government missions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in customer-facing, forward-deployed, or government contexts
- Strong production coding in Python and TypeScript or comparable modern languages
- Comfort across the stack including cloud platforms, containers, Linux and networking fundamentals
- Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
- Active TS/SCI clearance
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