Technical Program Lead, Public Sector
Scale AI · Washington, DC
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At a glance
Highlights
- Lead technical delivery for AI-enabled planning capability for major DoW commands.
- Build reusable AI systems for computer vision and generative AI use cases.
- Mentor TPMs shaping how Scale products combine and extend for mission impact.
Ideal candidate
Mission-driven technical leader who thrives in ambiguity and loves coaching teams. You pair operational empathy for defense users with structured problem-solving to ship impactful AI capabilities.
Requirements
- Active TS/SCI clearance
- 7+ years of experience succeeding in stakeholder management or customer-facing role
- Experience leading or mentoring other program managers, engineers, or technical staff
- Demonstrated ownership of technical delivery of a complex, multi-workstream program with senior government or enterprise stakeholders
- Technical background (education or professional experience with CS, Economics, Statistics, Engineering)
- Deep understanding of ML operations process
- Working knowledge of software delivery pipelines and DevOps principles
- A track record of structured, analytics-driven problem-solving
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Willingness to travel at least 25% of the time
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