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Staff Software Engineer, Public Sector

Scale AIΒ·πŸ“ San Francisco, California, United States

Employment

FULL TIME

Work mode

On-site

Experience

SENIOR LEVEL

Salary

$252K – $362K/yr

Pay vs market Β· Near median

This job's pay ($307,000 a year at the midpoint) is higher than about 55% of 354 salary-listed Software Engineer jobs in San Francisco in the last 12 months; their median is $288,350.

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Role overview

Job description

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 Staff Software Engineer, you will orchestrate the implementation of vertical features and horizontal capabilities to include mentoring other engineers on defining requirements with stakeholders and communication tradeoffs of technical implementations on feature and capab

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About this listing

  • Source: Scale AI's official careers site (via Greenhouse) Β· last confirmed on the source 1 Nov 2026
  • Posted 31 Mar 2026

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What they are looking for

Skills & requirements

Department Β· Public Sector Engineering

Hiring company

Scale AI

Technology

Scale delivers proven data, evaluations, and outcomes to AI labs, governments, and the Fortune 500.

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