Strategic Sourcing Lead in San Francisco

Join the team shaping the future of AI at Scale. Scale builds RL environments: sandboxed replicas of the digital spheres where real knowledge work occurs and built from the operating data of the companies that actually hold it. As the Data Acquisition Lead , you will own the commercial motion that gets us that data end to end. You will figure out which companies sit on the data for the next domain worth owning and then go and get it. This is a zero-to-one function with no playbook. You should be prepared to wear many hats, from thesis-driven dealmaker to hands-on operator to technical translator between commercial and Research teams. You will: Map the supply side. Work backwards from where labs are pushing to the specific organizations holding the underlying data. Build a thesis on which domains are worth owning and in what order. Invent the deal structures. You'll work with Scale’s legal team to define the first version of how these transactions get priced. Close. Own it from cold outreach to signature. Close the loop with the technical side. You need to hold a real conversation about what makes a dataset trainable and become an expert in what makes this underlying data valuable. Build the machine. Do the work by hand first, then turn what you learn into a repeatable pipeline. Ideally, you’d have: 5+ years across some mix of business development, corp dev, commercial strategy, or early-stage GTM. The label matters less than a track record of building a commercial motion that didn't exist before you got there A strong track record of managing important external relationships Strong business judgment and the ability to evaluate partnership value quickly Clear communication skills and comfort working with senior stakeholders Ability to operate independently while staying closely connected to cross-functional teams A practical, hands-on approach to building new functions from the ground up Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments Experience in

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. Our products provide the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and help enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. Scale Frontier Data is the organization behind the training and evaluation data that frontier labs depend on. We build the systems, tooling, and expert workflows that turn hard human expertise into signals that models can learn from, across reasoning, coding, agentic tool use, and domain expertise. About our Customer Platform team: Our Customer Platform Team plays a pivotal role in integrating our platform with external systems and ensuring seamless, reliable connectivity for both internal users and customers. As the leader of this team, you’ll drive the strategy, architecture, and development of our connectivity solutions, focusing on API integration, distributed systems, and a robust data platform. Your role will be crucial in maintaining and enhancing our platform’s ability to meet the needs of both our internal and external stakeholders. Responsibilities: Own large areas within our product Comfortable working cross functionally, whether that be internal or external customers Build features end-to-end: front-end, back-end, system design, debugging and testing Deliver experiments at a high velocity and level of quality to engage our customers Work across the entire product lifecycle from conceptualization through production Influence the culture, values, and processes of a growing engineering team Inspire and mentor less experienced engineers Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new product features and experiences. Requirements: At least 7-10 years of relevant experience is preferred Track record of shipping high-quality products and features at scale Desire to work in a very fast-paced environment Abil

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

About Scale At Scale AI, our mission is to accelerate the development of AI applications. For 8 years, Scale has been the leading AI data foundry, helping fuel the most exciting advancements in AI, including: generative AI, defense applications, and autonomous vehicles. With our recent Series F round, we’re accelerating the abundance of frontier data to pave the road to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and building upon our prior model evaluation work with enterprise customers and governments, to deepen our capabilities and offerings for both public and private evaluations. About the ACE team The Agent Capabilities & Environments (ACE) team, part of Scale’s Research organization, brings together customer-facing Researchers and Applied AI Engineers. Our core mission includes research on agent environments and RL reward signals, benchmarking autonomous agent performance across real-world scenarios and environments, creating robust data programs to improve Large Language Models (LLMs) agentic capabilities and building foundational tools and frameworks for evaluating models as agents. ACE focuses on autonomous agents that dynamically interact with diverse external environments, including code repositories, GUI interfaces, browsers, and more. About This Role This role is at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and practical application, with a focus on studying the data types essential for building state-of-the-art agents, such as browser and SWE agents. The ideal candidate will explore the data landscape needed to advance intelligent, adaptable AI agents, guiding the data strategy at Scale to drive innovation. This position requires not only expertise in LLM agents and planning algorithms but also creativity in addressing novel challenges related to data, interaction, and evaluation. You will contribute to impactful research publications on agents, collaborate with customer researchers, and work alongside the engineering team to translate t

Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer, Frontier AI Infrastructure to join our dynamic Public Sector Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will own the model inference layer - enabling state of the art models, debugging the latest AI tools, managing networking, debugging latency, and tracking pricing/usage metrics for AI models. You will lead technical discussions on the frontlines with cloud vendors and customers to deliver on critical contracts and to debug platform issues. You will also work upstream with Product to understand features before they break, moving us from "infra-only debugging" to proactive integration testing. You will: Design and implement secure scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure. Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components Re-architect the stack to run in compliant or restrictive environments. This requires designing swappable components (auth, storage, logging) to meet government/security mandates without breaking the product. You will work with Product to build integration tests that catch issues early, shifting the focus from "infra-only debugging" to preventing failures upstream. Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions. Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings. Must have: At least an active secret clearance and the ability & willingness to up level to TS/SCI with CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a secret clearance Ideally you'd have: Full Stack Development: Proficiency in both front-end and back-end development, including experience with modern web develo

Scale AI is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer, ARC (Architecture, Reliability, & Compute) to join our dynamic Public Sector Engineering team. As a part of this team, you will define how the company ships software, establishing the patterns for deploying into complex government and high-security environments, rather than just running Terraform scripts. You will build and maintain internal CLIs/tools that standardize testing, deployment, environment management and are tools that engineering relies on to prevent downstream breakages. You will execute on automated deployment efforts to pay down tech debt, creating fully functional staging/testing environments, and defining the company's standard for safe deployments. You will: Design and implement secure scalable backend systems for Public Sector customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure. Own services or systems and define their long-term health goals, while also improving the health of surrounding components. Re-architect the stack to run in compliant or restrictive environments. This requires designing swappable components (auth, storage, logging) to meet government/security mandates without breaking the product. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and execute the vision for backend solutions, ensuring they meet the unique needs of government agencies operating in secure environments. Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions. Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Public Sector business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings. Must have: At least an active secret clearance and the ability & willingness to up level to TS/SCI with CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a secret clearance Ideally you'd have: Full Stack Development: Prof

About the Team DoorDash is a data driven organization and relies on timely, accurate and reliable data to drive many business and product decisions. The Core Data Platform organization owns all the infrastructure necessary to run an operationally efficient analytical data stack. About the Roles The Data Platform team spans data mobility frameworks, ingestion, infrastructure, tools, and governance. Together, they design and operate scalable compute and ingestion frameworks using technologies such as Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, and modern lakehouse solutions, while also building abstractions and tools that simplify data workflows for engineers, analysts, and ML practitioners. In parallel, these teams establish strong data quality, cataloging, privacy, and compliance standards to ensure trust in analytics and regulatory adherence. As relatively high-impact teams, they offer engineers the opportunity to shape the roadmap, influence core platform decisions, and directly enable DoorDash’s business-critical insights and real-time personalization capabilities. You must be located in San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, Seattle, WA, or New York, NY. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Drive vision & strategy for building the frameworks charter and position it to handle the challenges of a rapidly growing business. Scale the analytical platform for the increasing amounts of data and use cases. You will bring your expertise in building and operating high scale systems with a focus on reliability, scalability and cost efficiency. Collaborate with stakeholders building solutions on top of the platform Foster a positive and supportive work culture, upleveling others. We're excited about you because you have… B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or equivalent. 2+ years of industry experience at our I4 level, 5+ years of industry experience at our I5 level Proficiency in using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) in th

About the Team At DoorDash, design means making experiences for the people who order, the people who prepare, and the people who deliver. As a Designer at DoorDash, you want to build things that matter to real people. You're at your best when you can move from idea to shipped product quickly, bringing experiences to life that reach and influence users at massive scale. You'll care about whether the product you make solved a real problem for real people, or changed how someone experiences their day. About the Role In this role, you’ll join the Core Dasher team within our Dasher organization, focused on one of DoorDash’s highest-priority challenges: growing and retaining Dasher supply. The team works across Growth and Financial Products to identify new ways to create value for Dashers, including exploring how Crimson, financial incentives, and financial wellness offerings can become meaningful growth levers. You’ll help lead 0→1 opportunities from strategy through launch, partnering across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Marketing, and Finance to build experiences that can scale across the U.S. and international markets. You will report to the Head of the Core Dasher team within our Dasher organization. We operate in a hybrid model, with 1–2 days per week in one of our Design Hubs in San Francisco or New York City. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Define projects with a clear point of view on what to build, writing briefs that synthesize business and customer inputs into roadmap milestones; balance customer needs, business goals, and feasibility to shape what your team builds and why Bring clarity to ambiguous, cross-team problems and turn them into actionable work that ships; drive prioritization across your team and adjacent teams, making tradeoffs between design quality, speed, and impact so the highest-leverage work moves first Shape key projects from concept through execution — staying close enough to resolve issues during iteration, gu

About the Team The Merchant (Mx) AI/ML team is a cornerstone of DoorDash’s merchant organization. We empower our restaurant partners to thrive on DoorDash by building intelligent, scalable AI systems that simplify operations, elevate their digital presence, and enhance customer engagement. Our world-class machine learning engineers develop production-grade AI solutions that power the entire merchant lifecycle — from onboarding and store setup to menu management, growth, and real-time order operations. The team is deeply customer-obsessed and impact-driven, focused on turning cutting-edge research in LLMs, multimodal learning, generative AI, and agentic automation into products that make our merchants more successful every day. About the Role We’re looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Mx AI/ML team, driving the design and deployment of next-generation AI product solutions that power our merchant experiences. This is a highly cross-functional leadership role — you’ll collaborate with product, design, operations, and data science teams to define the AI roadmap, guide technical direction, and deliver end-to-end AI/ML solutions at massive scale. You’ll lead a team of talented ML engineers who are building real AI products delivered to merchants’ fingertips, helping them become more successful on DoorDash. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead and grow a team of exceptional AI/ML engineers developing production-grade machine learning and generative AI solutions for the merchant ecosystem. Define a multi-year strategy and execute the AI roadmap across key Mx pillars — Onboarding, Menu Media Understanding & Generation, Menu Metadata Intelligence, and Agentic Task Automation. Partner with product and operations to translate merchant pain points into scalable AI-powered solutions. Own the end-to-end lifecycle of ML systems — from ideation and experimentation to productionization and continuous improvement. Drive innovation in multimodal AI

About the Team DoorDash for Business is how companies feed their people. We build the products that let a company run a recurring team lunch, give every employee a meal budget, cater an event or meeting and manage all of it through a single corporate account - across every brand and every market DoorDash operates in. About the Role We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team in DoorDash for Business. Our domain runs from the moment an order is placed to everything a company needs to administer it: high-complexity ordering for catering, recurring team meals, and group orders; the admin portal, identity, and member management that companies run their account on; budgets and policy enforcement; and the expense and travel integrations that connect us to our customers' finance systems. You'll own a pod of 8-10 engineers with a critical charter inside that domain, real revenue attached to it, and close partnership with Product, Design, and Sales Strategy & Operations. You must be located in the Seattle, San Francisco, Sunnyvale, or New York Metro Area for this hybrid position. You're excited about this opportunity because you will… Own a business-critical charter end to end - set technical direction, define the roadmap with your PM and Business counterparts, and be accountable for what ships and how well it runs. Build and grow a team - Hire, level up, and retain engineers; set the bar for what good looks like on your pod; give people work that stretches them. Work on a genuinely global product - Your charter serves the US alongside EMEA, LATAM, and APAC, with partner pods in India, Helsinki, and Brazil. You'll help decide what's built once globally versus what needs regional variation and build the partnerships across time zones to make that stick Take on real architectural weight - Consolidating onto one global stack means untangling parallel implementations, drawing clean service-ownership lines, and making migration calls with production tr

About the Team Our team exists to empower DoorDash Mobile engineers. We are the champions of three core pillars: Quality, Velocity, and Efficiency. Ultimately, our goal is to build the supportive infrastructure that allows our fellow engineers to build, ship, and operate apps at massive scale—with confidence and ease. We believe that a great developer experience leads to a great customer experience. About the Role We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Mobile Developer Experience team (also known internally as the Mobile Foundations team). In this role, you’ll not only set the technical vision but also nurture the culture required to build world-class mobile applications. Your team will concentrate on one vertical—ZeroKit, which enables rapid mobile prototyping via agents—and two horizontal infrastructure pillars: the iOS and Android monorepos. You will partner with senior engineers and stakeholders across the company to design systems that make our platform faster, more reliable, and more efficient. You will be a partner to your customers—your fellow engineers—working side-by-side to understand their hurdles and solve their immediate challenges. You’ll also look to the future, anticipating needs so we can deliver solutions before they become blockers. Crucially, this role will support our growing international engineering footprint and unified technology stack, meaning you and your team will work across our DoorDash, Wolt, and Deliveroo brands. This is a unique opportunity to lead a team through a mix of exciting greenfield initiatives and the refinement of established, successful tools. You must be located in the following locations for this opportunity: San Francisco, CA; Sunnyvale, CA; Seattle, WA; Los Angeles, CA; New York, New York. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Develop and maintain foundational components to enable DoorDash Engineers to excel at mobile engineering. Lead the development and strategy for ZeroKit to enabl

About the Team DoorDash's Protective Services function safeguards executives, their families, and residences through executive protection, residential security, threat management, and secure transportation across a three-brand global enterprise. The team operates 24/7 and is built on the principle that protection starts before an incident, not after. The people who do this work well combine operational discipline with personal composure, take ownership of outcomes rather than tasks, and represent the program in every interaction with the principal population. About the Role The Protective Services Agent provides close protection for DoorDash executives and their families across all operating environments, including corporate headquarters, domestic and international travel, company events, and residential settings. The role requires a trained executive protection professional who develops and implements security plans, conducts advances and risk assessments, coordinates with law enforcement and venue partners, and serves as the principal's primary security presence. Personnel must be capable of managing incidents and serving as first responders on scene. Operations regularly involve extended duty periods, irregular schedules, and short-notice deployments. Potential travel up to 25% of the time. You are excited about this opportunity because you will… Provide close protection across all principal environments. Serve as the primary security presence for executives and their families across headquarters, travel, events, and residential operations. Maintain continuous situational awareness, assess threats in real time, and execute protective protocols effectively and unobtrusively. Plan and execute security operations. Develop and implement comprehensive security plans for executive movements and events, incorporating site surveys, route planning, risk assessments, staffing requirements, screening procedures, and emergency response strategies. Conduct advances for all pr

About the Team DoorDash Labs is an independent innovation hub within DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. Our mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. If you have a passion for applying AI and robotics solutions in a service used by millions of people, then we want to talk to you! Please Note: This role is based in San Francisco, CA, and requires being in-person 5 days a week. About the Role We are seeking a Senior RF Engineer to join our multidisciplinary team developing mission-critical RF/electrical systems for unmanned platforms.This role offers a rare opportunity to gain deep insight into RF design and validation, contributing across the full product lifecycle, from early concept and prototyping through production. In this role, you will apply deep expertise in electromagnetic theory and wireless system design to ensure autonomous platforms operate with exceptional reliability and precision. You will design, optimize and validate RF / mixed-signal PCBAs with a strong focus on interference mitigation, troubleshoot system-level desense, and leverage a thorough understanding of wireless technologies including LTE, 5G NR, Wi-Fi, GPS, and UWB. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead the development of innovative solutions that span across RF, Mixed signal and mechanical domain. Design RF hardware as well as wireless testbeds to support system validation, and lead the execution and documentation of system-level design and verification Provide expertise, mentorship to partner teams regarding EMI mitigation strategies, and cross-functional debug processes Characterize EMI caused by internal & external aggressors by tracing root causes using EMC probes

About the Team DoorDash Labs, established in 2018, serves as the innovation hub for DoorDash, focusing on developing automation and robotics solutions to enhance last-mile logistics. The team's mission is to create technologies that support and augment human networks, aiming to improve efficiency for Dashers, merchants, and consumers alike. We’re ruthlessly focused on business impact. We are a highly senior team composed of former pioneers from a variety of different robotics industries. As of 2025, DoorDash has completed 10B lifetime deliveries. We’re focused on how to do the next 10B even better. About the Role We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Reliability & Test Engineer to join our team. This individual will play a key role in the development and validation of our unmanned platforms at the system and component levels. You will partner closely with EE, ME, and Autonomy teams to translate mission needs into robust, reliable hardware. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment where reliability and test rigor determine program success. You will be hands-on in developing test methods and equipment to uncover failures before they happen in the field. You will partner closely with EE, ME, and Autonomy teams to translate mission needs into robust, reliable hardware. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment where reliability and test rigor determine program success. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Architect and implement rigorous validation strategies, utilizing Python scripts for automation while leveraging CAD and shop tools to engineer bespoke test fixtures and hardware rigs. Oversee experimental execution across internal facilities and external laboratories, maintaining technical mastery over vibration tables, environmental chambers, DAQ systems, and ingress protection testing. Translate high-level vehicle reliability requirements into granula

About the Team The Support Quality team’s vision is to “Provide teammates, team leads, and AI Agents with actionable feedback on 100% of cases so they can get 1% better every day. Deliver actionable business insight to wider S&O to help improve business policy and processes / Product teams to increase our customer experience.” About the Role You will report to the Director, Teammate Enablement, in our Customer Experience organization. The Teammate Enablement Team is responsible for ensuring that our Teammates have the resources (tooling, quality measurements, and knowledge base) and training to effectively and empathetically support DoorDash’s customers. Where opportunities are identified, we drive feedback to our business partners in order to empower Teammates to be 1% better every day for our customers. The team’s primary role will be to: i) build automated QA metrics that have high coverage, precision, and low false-positive rates; ii) support all manual QA efforts, including incubation and scale-up of new measurements; iii) deliver actionable insights to our partner teams to help improve the processes and policies on our support experience, as well as insights for our vendors to drive better agent performance management; and iv) manage our QA tech providers to ensure they deliver against our ambitious roadmap. This is a leadership role, with the expectation of managing the priorities of a small team while remaining accountable to key initiatives oneself. You’re excited about this opportunity because you will… Lead a small team centered around identifying and fixing top opportunities in our quality assurance programs that support customer service at DoorDash. Design, launch, and evolve our conversational intelligence program, utilizing AI technology to monitor, measure, and drive continuous improvements in our customer service interactions. Drive the strategy of our quality assurance program, identifying the right strategies to balance manual quality assuranc