Software Engineer - New Grad

Role Overview As a Senior Software Engineer, AI Ops at Scale AI, you will own the long-term technical health, performance, and stability of AI solutions deployed across our strategic public sector partners. While our Delivery Teams build and launch new use cases, you are the technical steward ensuring these deployments operate with Operational Excellence. You will bridge software engineering, MLOps, and client governance, managing tiered SLAs, tracking model drift, and executing maintenance protocols that protect both system integrity and operational margins. Key Responsibilities Handover Gate & Onboarding: Act as the technical gatekeeper during the formal transition from Delivery to Maintenance. Conduct deep-dive reviews to ensure baseline code, prompts, and architecture meet strict maintainability and documentation standards before sign-off. Tiered SLA & Incident Management: Own technical response and resolution targets across multi-tiered service models (from Business-Hours Essential to 24/7 Mission-Critical). Lead Incident Governance, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and P1/P2 mitigations within strict active support windows. AI Lifecycle Governance: Monitor production model performance, latency, and data drift. Manage prompt configuration repositories to maintain behavioral consistency and perform regression testing when LLM providers update underlying endpoints. Request Classification & Technical Scope: Operationalize the boundary between Routine Maintenance (In-Scope) and System Evolution (Out-of-Scope). Assess incoming client requests and run comparative benchmarking on new AI models. Automation & Reliability Engineering: Eliminate operational toil by engineering self-healing data pipelines, automated RAG indexing syncs, and telemetry tooling. Influence upstream "Delivery" teams to adopt architectural patterns that simplify ongoing maintenance. Client Technical Interface: Serve as the senior technical point of contact for government and enter

At Scale, our mission is to develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. For 10 years, Scale has provided the high-quality data and full-stack technologies that power the world's leading models, and has helped enterprises and governments build, deploy, and oversee AI applications that deliver real impact. We work closely with industry leaders like Meta, Ernst & Young, Mayo Clinic, Time Inc., the Government of Qatar, and U.S. government agencies including the Army and Air Force. Scale's internship is not a side project. Interns own real, shipped work on the same roadmaps as full-time engineers, with mentorship from world-class talent and a culture that values ownership, speed, and truth-seeking. Many of our interns return as full-time Scaliens. Scale’s rapidly growing Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. Our core work consists of: Creating custom AI applications that will impact millions of citizens Generating high-quality training data for national LLMs Upskilling and advisory services to spread the impact of AI Example Projects: Build reinforcement learning and post-training data pipelines that power frontier model development Develop evaluation infrastructure that measures model reliability for enterprise and public sector customers Ship agentic AI applications and the tooling that makes them observable, testable, and safe to deploy Ship tools that accelerate the growth of new qualified contributors on Scale's platform Build fraud-detection systems that remove bad actors and keep Scale's contributor base safe and trusted Use models to estimate the quality of tasks and contributors, and guarantee quality on requests at large scale Devise advanced matching algorithms that pair contributors to customers for optimal turnaround and accuracy Create optimized and efficient UI/UX tooling, in combination with ML algorithms, for 100k+ contributors completing bi

Scale is growing rapidly, and joining the Global Public Sector team is an opportunity to work on one of the most exciting and quickly expanding teams at Scale. This team is responsible for generating, executing, and fostering Scale’s work with governments and government-backed entities outside of the United States. We develop bespoke solutions that leverage our customers’ proprietary data and expertise to transform their organizations with AI. We work with them to understand their pain points and workflows and then forward deploy our team to build cutting-edge solutions. The applications we build are powered by the Scale GenAI Platform, a full stack product to build, test and deploy frontier AI systems. Developing custom AI applications Building custom LLMs Providing high-quality training data for research and government institutions building LLMs Developing partnerships to foster regional talent growth and AI adoption We are looking for an entrepreneurial and experienced product leader to play a pivotal role in the ideation and development of transformative AI solutions. The ideal candidate has deep experience with AI/ML application development, can think strategically about how to solve a problem, is an excellent listener, is comfortable getting into the weeds operationally, and has a strong understanding of software engineering principles and practices. You will be responsible for owning large AI projects for one or many customers. You will lead a cross-functional team of engineers, MLEs, and operators to build a highly impactful solution for our customers that will drive millions in revenue for our business as well. Responsibilities: Lead design workshops with the client to define custom AI solutions Scope out new AI application use cases across various government entities Lead cross-functional development of AI applications and custom LLMs with diverse stakeholders (Engineering + Ops + Go-to-Market) Consistently engage with future end-us

Scale’s rapidly growing Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. Our core work consists of: Creating custom AI applications that will impact millions of citizens Generating high-quality training data for custom LLMs Upskilling and advisory services to spread the impact of AI As a Full Stack Software Engineer (Forward Deployed), you’ll collaborate directly with public sector counterparts to quickly build full-stack, AI applications, to solve their most pressing challenges and achieve meaningful impact for citizens. At Scale, we’re not just building AI solutions—we’re enabling the public sector to transform their operations and better serve citizens through cutting-edge technology. If you’re ready to shape the future of AI in the public sector and be a founding member of our team, we’d love to hear from you. You will: Partner with public sector clients to scope, collect feedback and implement solutions for complex problems, including spending up to two weeks per month in client offices for feedback and delivery. Architect production-grade applications that integrate AI models with full-stack frameworks, managing everything from interactive UIs to backend APIs and systems. Deploy and manage infrastructure within cloud environments, ensuring the highest levels of system integrity, security, scalability, and long-term reliability. Contribute to core platform features designed to be reused across diverse international client use cases. Partner with design, product, and data teams to build robust applications aligned with the broader technical architecture. Ideally you’d have: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related quantitative field 5+ years of post-graduation, full-stack engineering experience with demonstrated proficiency in React (required), TypeScript, Next.js, Python, Node.js, PostgreSQL or MongoDB plus hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure

Scale’s rapidly growing International Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. Our core work consists of: Creating custom AI applications that will impact millions of citizens Generating high-quality training data for custom LLMs Upskilling and advisory services to spread the impact of AI As a Full Stack Software Engineer (Forward Deployed), you’ll collaborate directly with public sector counterparts to quickly build full-stack, AI applications, to solve their most pressing challenges and achieve meaningful impact for citizens. At Scale, we’re not just building AI solutions—we’re enabling the public sector to transform their operations and better serve citizens through cutting-edge technology. If you’re ready to shape the future of AI in the public sector and be a founding member of our team, we’d love to hear from you. You will: Serve as the lead technical strategist for public sector engagements, converting ambiguous mission requirements into robust architectural roadmaps and guiding onsite implementation Architect the fundamental frameworks for production-grade AI applications, setting the gold standard for how interactive UIs, backend systems, and AI models are integrated at scale to deliver reliable outcomes. Guide the evolution of cloud infrastructure, ensuring security, global scalability, and long-term system integrity across all environments. Direct the development of core platforms and shared services, ensuring they solve cross-cutting needs for diverse global client use cases. Partner with cross-functional leadership to steer the technical roadmap, mentoring senior and junior staff and ensuring all products align with a cohesive, future-proof technical architecture. Bridge the gap between the field and the core platform by turning real-world client lessons into the reusable patterns that power the entire engineering team. Ideally you’d have: Masters or Phd in Computer Science or eq