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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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From C$190K/yr

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About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the Team We build enterprise software that helps organizations optimize sales performance and improve go-to-market agility. Our engineering organization includes multiple product application teams responsible for delivering core customer-facing capabilities. We are seeking Senior Backend Engineers to join our application teams. You’ll work alongside staff, senior, and early-career engineers to design, build, and scale backend systems that power enterprise-grade product workflows. This is an opportunity to work on complex product and data problems while contributing meaningfully to technical decisions, system quality, and team delivery. We are low on meetings and high on accountability. Most of the team is in the EST time zone, with a few located in AST, PST, and Central as well. What you’ll be doing You will play an important role in the continued evolution of our application stack. You will design and build backend capabilities for complex product workflows, contribute to system design discussions, and help ensure our systems remain maintainable, reliable, and scalable as we grow. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you are expected to operate with strong ownership and sound technical judgment. This includes identifying risks in the work you own, surfacing edge cases, asking thoughtful questions, and proposing improvements that strengthen the quality and reliability of the system. You will: Design and build backend services that power complex product workflows. Contribute to d

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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C$110K – C$150K/yr

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About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! The Role As a Senior Solutions Engineer, you will play a critical role at the intersection of data, technology, and customer impact. You will lead the design and delivery of scalable, reliable, and high-impact technical implementations for our enterprise clients. Working with diverse and complex datasets across industries, you’ll build and optimize end-to-end analytics solutions that directly influence how customers engage with the Forma platform. You’ll partner cross-functionally to identify opportunities, scope high-value solutions, and deliver outcomes that drive measurable business impact. This is a highly visible, client-facing role that combines hands-on technical expertise with strategic thinking. What You’ll Do Lead strategic technical engagements with enterprise clients, guiding solution design for complex business challenges using the Forma platform Design, build, and optimize scalable data architectures, pipelines, and workflows (e.g., PySpark, Databricks) Translate business requirements into robust, production-ready data solutions Design and deliver custom code and customer-specific integrations to extend the Forma platform for unique client requirements Partner with Professional Services to extract, transform, and analyze client data to optimize incentive compensation and sales performance strategies Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to deliver high-quality, actionable datasets and insights Drive improvements in data infrastructure, perfor

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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About Forma.ai: Forma.ai is a Series B startup that's revolutionizing how sales compensation is designed, managed and optimized. We handle billions in annual managed commissions for market leaders like Edmentum, Stryker, and Autodesk. Our growth has been fuelled by our passion for fundamentally changing and shaping how companies use sales intelligence to drive business strategy. We’re welcoming equally driven individuals who are excited about creating something big! About the Team Engineers on this team construct our rules-based calculating engine for processing sales commissions. This might sound simple if you have never been exposed to sales comp plans, it is not! We are low on meetings, high on accountability. Most of the team are in EST time zone but we have a few located in PST and Central as well. We are far from maintenance / progressive evolution in many areas, there is a lot of room to make a big impact in the overall design. What you’ll be doing Reporting to the Manager of Data Platform, you will play a critical role in the evolution of our Spark based data platform. You'll lead development efforts for our complex, data-rich platform features while being an example to the team of code quality and thoughtful software design. You will be working on the most challenging code at Forma. As a Staff Engineer, you are expected to operate with a high degree of ownership and trust. This includes proactively identifying architectural risks, surfacing edge cases or constraints others may not see, and advocating for improvements that strengthen the long-term integrity of the system. We value engineers who bring forward thoughtful perspectives - even when they challenge assumptions - and who help the team see around corners. You will: Design and evolve backend services that power product workflows. Architect data models representing hierarchical & graph structures, relationships, and large-scale enterprise datasets. Build

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📍 New York, NY or Los Angeles, Canada· Full-time
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$100K – $150K/yr

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The Opportunity We're hiring a mid-level Product Designer to be the creative partner behind Enigma's go-to-market efforts. Our identity is mid-refresh, so this isn't a role that only applies to our existing design system, you'll help systematize its evolution. You'll work directly with our marketing lead (a generalist across channels and strategy) to turn GTM ideas into campaigns, web pages, sales collateral, and social content. What You’ll Do Shape GTM creative, don't just execute it. Partner on campaign concepts and go-to-market ideas, bringing your own point of view rather than filling in a pre-set brief. Systematize the brand system. Contribute to Enigma's brand organization including but not limited to maintaining asset libraries, deck templates, and brand guideline documents. Build and update the website. Design and ship pages directly in our custom CMS (deployed on Vercel), from layout to content to launch, alongside marketing and engineering. Create sales and marketing collateral. One-pagers, case studies, pitch decks, and flexible slide systems the team can reuse for sales, marketing, and leadership. Own social and campaign content. Design LinkedIn carousels and campaign graphics, and cut short-form video (“cut-ups”) from longer source material. Design HubSpot campaign assets. Email templates and campaign landing pages that support lifecycle and demand-gen marketing. Prep imagery. Retouch and prepare hero and content images for web, social, and marketing channels. Use AI as part of the workflow. Use Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini etc. for ideation, copy support, team collaboration, and speeding up production, we want someone comfortable working this way, not resistant to it. Maintain consistency. Typography, color, imagery, and tone stay on-brand across every deliverable. What Makes This Role Exciting? Real ownership: you're helping build the brand system, not just maintaining one that's already locked. A true creative partnership: you'll work directly with a mark

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📍 Toronto, Canada· Full-time
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Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust, and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 130 million daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit www.redditinc.com . Reddit’s Ads Data Science team is looking for a highly experienced Staff Data Scientist to advance the intelligence powering the advertiser experience on Reddit. In this role, you'll take deep ownership of a high-impact problem space within advertising, specializing in measurement, identity, and signal quality. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role where you'll influence strategic direction, set a high technical bar, and drive cross-functional initiatives across one or more critical focus areas in the Ads organization. Responsibilities: Design the Future of Ads Identity: Develop/employ probabilistic models for identity resolution. Design the methodology that links on-platform and off-platform actions to maximize addressability while honoring privacy. Advance Lift Methodologies & Experimentation: Own the statistical rigor behind Reddit’s Brand and Conversion Lift products. Innovate experimental design and develop infrastructure that supports large-scale, high-velocity, low-bias testing for advertisers. Maximize Signal for Predictive Performance: Define the strategy for new signal sources. You will mathematically quantify the value of these signals and work with modeling teams to incorporate them into predictive models, directly improving bidding efficiency and ROAS. Define Ground Truth & Evaluation Frameworks: Solve the industry-wide challenge of validating identity and measurement. Design the objective functions and truth sets used to train our models and measure the incremental impact of our identity graph.

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$240K – $270K/yr

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About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing Solve challenging problems that arise in providing high performance interactive experience to enable analytics and workflows use cases on top of modern warehouses Build software using the latest developer tools and using programming languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Typescript Develop new algorithms and techniques for improving the performance and interactivity for enabling analytics and workflows for the world largest companies Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues Design and implement new software features to support our fast growing user growth Collaborate with cross-functional groups - infrastructure, design, product, customer support, sales and marketing to build an innovative product capabilities Qualifications We Need 10+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong Computer Science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Experience building software capabilities for analyzing large scale data web applications Data driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems Data model design, and API development experience to enable customer facing cap

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$240K – $270K/yr

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About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing Solve challenging problems that arise in providing an interactive experience on data warehouses for data exploration and analysis Build with modern tools and languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Node, and Kubernetes Build backend distributed services, new algorithms and modern API to support a cloud application Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues Design and implement new software features to support our fast growing user base Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies Qualifications We Need 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong Computer Science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Data driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems Data model design, and API development experience SQL query optimization and database internals Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) Prior experience working at high growth company solving technical problems to enable continued success Additional Job details The base salary range for this position is $240k - $270

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$240K – $270K/yr

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About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing You will be responsible for developing elegant and responsive user experience using the latest front-end technologies. You'll own substantial pieces of the product, from design to launch Working with our product, UX design, and backend development teams, you will develop new features and technologies that make our product experience awesome and radically simplify the user experience for non-technical users You will leverage your technical expertise in front-end application development in the creation of novel visualizations for structured and unstructured data and develop new techniques for improving the performance and interactivity of the application Use modern frontend frameworks like React, GraphQL, TypeScript and Node.js Qualifications We Need 10+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software An eye for great design and a passion for building products that provide a great user experience The ability to make the right trade-offs between functionality and delivery speed that supports delivering value to customers, all the while iterating based on feedback and roadmap priorities Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong computer science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Experience building software capabilities for analyzing large scale data web applications Prior ex

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$150K – $240K/yr

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About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing Solve challenging problems that arise in providing high performance interactive experience to enable analytics and workflows use cases on top of modern warehouses Build software using the latest developer tools and using programming languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Typescript Develop new algorithms and techniques for improving the performance and interactivity for enabling analytics and workflows for the world largest companies Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues Design and implement new software features to support our fast growing user growth Collaborate with cross-functional groups - infrastructure, design, product, customer support, sales and marketing to build an innovative product capabilities Qualifications We Need 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong Computer Science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Experience building software capabilities for analyzing large scale data web applications Data driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems Data model design, and API development experience to enable customer facin

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$170K – $240K/yr

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About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing You will be responsible for developing elegant and responsive user experience using the latest front-end technologies. You'll own substantial pieces of the product, from design to launch Working with our product, UX design, and backend development teams, you will develop new features and technologies that make our product experience awesome and radically simplify the user experience for non-technical users You will leverage your technical expertise in front-end application development in the creation of novel visualizations for structured and unstructured data and develop new techniques for improving the performance and interactivity of the application Use modern frontend frameworks like React, GraphQL, TypeScript and Node.js Qualifications We Need 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software An eye for great design and a passion for building products that provide a great user experience The ability to make the right trade-offs between functionality and delivery speed that supports delivering value to customers, all the while iterating based on feedback and roadmap priorities Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong computer science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Experience building software capabilities for analyzing large scale data web applications Prior exp

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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$170K – $240K/yr

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About the Role Sigma is transforming how businesses run by delivering a high performance platform on the modern data architecture. Hence, we are growing the engineering team and looking for engineers who are excited to solve challenging problems, deliver impactful capabilities throughout our stack to build world-class technology. You will be part of a talented team of engineers with a shared mission to make data easily accessible for all users. What You Will Be Doing Solve challenging problems that arise in providing an interactive experience on data warehouses for data exploration and analysis Build with modern tools and languages like Rust, Go, GraphQL, Node, and Kubernetes Build backend distributed services, new algorithms and modern API to support a cloud application Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues Design and implement new software features to support our fast growing user base Collaborate with peers and stakeholders through design and code reviews to ensure best practices amongst available technologies Qualifications We Need 5+ years industry experience building and maintaining high-quality software Experience building and deploying robust and secure web applications in a continuous deployment environment Desire to be a great teammate and have fun at work without compromising ownership towards your work Strong sense of craftsmanship, and a healthy academic curiosity to solve challenges at sigma Strong Computer Science fundamentals Qualifications We Want (also, skills you’ll learn!) Data driven aptitude and its application to solve distributed system problems Data model design, and API development experience SQL query optimization and database internals Administered cloud service infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Azure) Prior experience working at high growth company solving technical problems to enable continued success Additional Job details The base salary range for this position is $170k - $240

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $216K/yr

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Scale Labs, Research Scientist — Agent Robustness As the leading data and evaluation partner for frontier AI companies, Scale plays an integral role in understanding the capabilities and safeguarding AI models and systems. Building on this expertise, Scale Labs has launched a new team focused on policy research, to bridge the gap between AI research and global policymakers to make informed, scientific decisions about AI risks and capabilities. Our research tackles the hardest problems in agent robustness, AI control protocols, and AI risk evaluations to help governments, industry, and the public understand and mitigate AI risk while maximizing AI adoption. This team collaborates broadly across industry, the public sector, and academia and regularly publishes our findings. We are actively seeking talented researchers to join us in shaping this vision. As a Research Scientist working on Agent Robustness you will work on the fundamental challenges of building AI agents that are safe and aligned with humans. For example, you might: Research the science of AI agent capabilities with a focus on how they relate to safety, risk factors, and methodologies for benchmarking them; Design and build harnesses to test AI agents’ tendency to take harmful actions when pressured to do so by users or tricked into doing so by elements of their environment; Design and build exploits and mitigations for new and unique failure modes that arise as AI agents gain affordances like coding, web browsing, and computer use; Characterize and design mitigations for potential failure modes or broader risks of systems involving multiple interacting AI agents. Ideally you’d have: Commitment to our mission of promoting safe, secure, and trustworthy AI deployments in the industry as frontier AI capabilities continue to advance. Practical experience conducting technical research collaboratively. You should be comfortable building and leveraging agent scaffolding, designing evaluation harnesses, an

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $252K/yr

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About Scale AI Scale AI is the data foundation for AI, helping organizations build and deploy reliable production AI applications. We partner with leading enterprises and government organizations to accelerate their AI initiatives through our data annotation platform, generative AI solutions, and enterprise AI capabilities. Role Overview As a Forward Deployed AI Engineering Manager on our Enterprise team, you'll be the technical bridge between Scale AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities and our most strategic customers. You'll work with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges, lead a team that architects specific AI solutions, and ensure successful deployment and adoption of AI systems in production environments. This is a Management role that combines deep engineering and AI expertise, leading a team, and working on customer-facing problems. You'll work directly with customer engineering teams to integrate AI into their critical workflows. Key Responsibilities Customer Integration & Deployment Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand their technical infrastructure, data pipelines, and business requirements Design and implement custom integrations between Scale AI's platform and customer data environments (cloud platforms, data warehouses, internal APIs) Build robust data connectors and ETL pipelines to ingest, process, and prepare customer data for AI workflows Deploy and configure AI models and agents within customer security and compliance boundaries AI Agent Development Develop production-grade AI agents tailored to customer use cases across domains like customer support, data analysis, content generation, and workflow automation Architect multi-agent systems that orchestrate between different models, tools, and data sources Implement evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance and iterate toward business objectives Design human-in-the-loop workflows and feedback mechanisms for continuous agent improvement Prompt Engineeri

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $180K/yr

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The Public Sector software engineers (SWEs) create the core product building blocks forward-deployed teams use to develop agentic capabilities that function across multiple domains. SWEs responsibilities include building the systems required to ingest and process federal datasets to support real-time decision-making in contested environments. We develop novel agentic enabling capabilities that includes: Create multi-layered guardrails around agents Optimize data retrieval for agents Orchestrate fleets of asynchronous agents Automatically alerts users to deviations in data Illustrating how an agent reached a decision As a Software Engineer, you will own the development of a vertical feature or a horizontal capability to include defining requirements with stakeholders and implementation until it is accepted by the stakeholders. You will: Design and implement scalable backend systems for Federal customers using cloud-native AI infrastructure. Build features for agentic systems including multi-layered guardrails and data retrieval optimization. Develop data pipelines and machine learning infrastructure to make data sources accessible by agents. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to execute backend solutions for secure environments. Participate in customer engagements to understand requirements and deliver technical solutions. Define requirements with stakeholders and implement features until they are accepted. Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for the Federal business. Ideally you will have: Full Stack Development: Proficiency in front-end, back-end development and infrastructure, including experience with modern web development frameworks, programming languages, and databases Cloud-Native Technologies: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in developing and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment. Understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes

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📍 San Francisco, Canada· Full-time
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From $288K/yr

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About Scale AI Scale AI is the data foundation for AI, helping organizations build and deploy reliable production AI applications. We partner with leading enterprises and government organizations to accelerate their AI initiatives through our data annotation platform, generative AI solutions, and enterprise AI capabilities. Role Overview As a Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer on our Enterprise team, you'll be the technical bridge between Scale AI's cutting-edge AI capabilities and our most strategic customers. You'll work with enterprise clients to understand their unique challenges, architect custom AI solutions, and ensure successful deployment and adoption of AI systems in production environments. This is a hands-on technical role that combines deep engineering expertise with customer-facing problem solving. You'll work directly with customer engineering teams to integrate AI into their critical workflows. Key Responsibilities Customer Integration & Deployment Partner directly with enterprise customers to understand their technical infrastructure, data pipelines, and business requirements Design and implement custom integrations between Scale AI's platform and customer data environments (cloud platforms, data warehouses, internal APIs) Build robust data connectors and ETL pipelines to ingest, process, and prepare customer data for AI workflows Deploy and configure AI models and agents within customer security and compliance boundaries AI Agent Development Develop production-grade AI agents tailored to customer use cases across domains like customer support, data analysis, content generation, and workflow automation Architect multi-agent systems that orchestrate between different models, tools, and data sources Implement evaluation frameworks to measure agent performance and iterate toward business objectives Design human-in-the-loop workflows and feedback mechanisms for continuous agent improvement Prompt Engineering & Optimization Create sophisticate

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