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Mission Software Engineering Manager, Public Sector

Scale AI

$273,700 - $341,550
Dec 9, 2025
San Francisco, CA, US • Saint Louis, MO, US • New York, NY, US • Washington, DC, US
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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 a Mission Software Engineering Manager to support government customers by scoping and developing onsite solutions.

Requirements

  • Prior experience developing with Python and JavaScript, or other modern software languages. Familiarity with Node and React is a plus.
  • Cloud-Native Technologies: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and experience in developing and deploying applications in a cloud-native environment. Understanding of containerization (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus
  • Linux experience: Understanding of shell scripting, operating systems, etc
  • Networking experience: Understanding of networking technologies, configuration (ports, protocols, etc)
  • Data Engineering: Knowledge of ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and experience in building data pipelines to integrate and process diverse data sources. Understanding of data modeling, data warehousing, and data governance principles
  • Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to understand complex challenges and devise effective solutions. Ability to think critically, identify root causes, and propose innovative approaches to overcome technical obstacles
  • Understand unique DoD and USG constraints when it comes to technology

Responsibilities

  • Recruit a high-performing engineering team.
  • Drive engineering productivity. Provide guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to a team of engineers working on Generative AI projects.
  • Implement end-to-end data integrations, syncing customer’s data to Scale’s platform and back.
  • Deploy and maintain Scale software at customer sites
  • Develop customer requested features and work closely with them to ensure that they win customer love.
  • 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.

Other

  • Be open to ~25% travel or relocation to a key customer geographic location.
  • This role will require an active TS/SCI security clearance or the ability to obtain a security clearance.
  • 5+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation
  • 2+ years of prior engineering management or equivalent experience and has managed an engineering team.
  • Track record of success as a hybrid customer facing engineer, forward deployed software engineer, and ability to quickly adapt to different roles.