Strategist, Qatar

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

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, we develop reliable AI systems for the world's most important decisions. One of our most critical partnerships is with key government institutions in Qatar and across the GCC, where we're helping build a national AI foundation across ministries and cultural institutions. Scale's Global Public Sector team is responsible for developing and executing the strategies that build trust, awareness, and adoption of Scale's offering with government partners around the world. We understand our government partners' mandates and challenges, and we ensure their voices are reflected in how we tell Scale's story. We partner closely with product, sales, delivery, comms, and the broader marketing team to create a cohesive experience across every touchpoint — from a sales email to a ministerial briefing. About the Role This role sits at the intersection of product marketing, content production, and regional growth strategy, and reports to Scale's Product Marketing Lead, Global Public Sector. We're looking for a Product Marketing Manager to drive the socialization and amplification of Scale's landmark government partnerships across Qatar, the GCC and beyond. This role is unique: you will act as a bridge between Scale and government entities, turning complex, high-stakes AI projects into high-visibility success stories. Day to day, you will lead the product, customer, and brand marketing execution behind our flagship national partnership in Qatar, and you'll support the strategy for entering new markets across the GCC. The ideal candidate pairs strong storytelling instincts with the judgment and polish needed to work directly with senior government stakeholders. You will: Produce the Content That Tells Our Story: Create the case studies, one-pagers, solution briefs, thought leadership, web copy, and presentations that turn Scale's complex, technical work into clear, compelling narratives. Evangelize National Impact: Partner with customer stakeholders t