Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Public Sector

This is a hybrid customer-facing engineering role. You'll sit with the people wh💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-06 → 2026-09-25

Core

Embed with U.S. government customers to design, build, deploy, and maintain AI applications and backend systems supporting critical missions.

Role type

Senior IC forward-deployed software engineer (public sector)

Builds

AI applications, robust backend systems, and data integrations for government clients

Domain

Public sector / Defense & Intelligence / Cloud infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, TypeScript, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers, Linux, networking, independent operation in ambiguous environments

Preferred skills

LLM/generative model deployment, Node, React, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, data engineering (ETL, modeling, governance)

Responsibilities

Embed with customers to scope problems and build working software; own end-to-end delivery from prototype to production; build backend systems and data integrations; partner with product to feed field signals into the roadmap; serve as technical point of contact for stakeholders

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About Scale AI

Series D5000 Employees

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. 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. We are expanding our team to accelerate the development of AI applications.