Scale AI's Public Sector business is growing quickly as government agencies adopt AI to support critical national security, defense, and public sector missions, and the company needs an Engineering Manager to lead a team of software engineers building core products and infrastructure for these customers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation
- 2+ years of prior engineering management or equivalent experience and has managed an engineering team
- Extensive experience in software development
- Experience scaling products at hyper-growth startups
- Excitement to work with AI technologies and their applications for the public sector
- Deep technical knowledge of Software Development, willing to get deep into the weeds to solve problems alongside the team
- Experience with cloud-native technologies, full stack development, data engineering, and ml ops infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable backend systems for Federal customers, leveraging Scale's modern and cloud-native AI infrastructure
- Develop distributed systems, data-intensive applications, and machine learning infrastructure to enable real impact for mission owners
- Build robust and reliable backend systems that can serve as standalone products, empowering customers to accelerate their own AI ambitions
- Participate actively in customer engagements, working closely with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver innovative solutions
- Contribute to the platform roadmap and product strategy for Scale AI's Federal business, playing a key role in shaping the future direction of our offerings
- Drive engineering productivity, provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to a team of engineers working on Generative AI projects
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and execute strategic roadmap
Other
- Must be able to commute to office four times per week
- Have or ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
- Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Show a track record of mentoring and leading teams in successful projects
- Ability to work with and provide reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and mental disabilities
