Frontier Agents Engineer

Meet regularly with customer teams onsite and virtually, collaborating cross-fun💼 Full-time💰 $12,000🗓 2026-08-13 → 2026-09-24

Core

Build complex AI agents and ML solutions for enterprise clients to solve deep technical problems across domains like cybersecurity, journalism, and genomics.

Role type

Senior Applied AI Engineer (Frontier Agents)

Builds

Next-generation AI agents with multimodal functionality and tool-calling for enterprise customers

Domain

Generative AI, Enterprise Software, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, cloud technology stack (AWS/GCP), machine learning model iteration, data-driven experimentation, translating business requirements to technical solutions, debugging code in customer and internal codebases

Preferred skills

Generative AI application development, state-of-the-art LLM knowledge, software engineering best practices

Technologies

Python, numpy, pandas, AWS, GCP

Responsibilities

Own and optimize AI solutions for enterprise customer technical problems, build advanced AI agents with multimodal and tool-calling capabilities, collaborate cross-functionally with customer teams, push production code in multiple environments

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About Scale AI

Series D5000 Employees

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