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Software Engineering Manager, Public Sector

Scale AI· Public Sector Engineering
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Hybrid (Washington, DC)$223.2k - $279kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Engineering Manager role leading a 6-8 person team of software engineers building core products and infrastructure for Scale AI’s public sector customers, with a split of technical planning (50%) and people management (50%), and requiring ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance.

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.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define, design, and execute strategic roadmap.
  • Navigate and deliver outcomes while navigating through complex public sector compliance requirements and frameworks.
  • 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

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of full-time engineering experience, post-graduation
  • 2+ years of prior engineering management or equivalent experience and has managed an engineering team
  • Have 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
  • Extremely strong track record as an individual contributor
  • Show a track record of mentoring and leading teams in successful projects
  • Possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Have or ability to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

Skills

Required:Engineering leadershipBackend system designDistributed systemsMachine learning infrastructurePublic sector compliance

Benefits

  • base salary, equity, and benefits as described; comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage; retirement benefits; learning and development stipend; generous PTO; commuter stipend (eligible roles)
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Data-centric infrastructure to accelerate the development of AI

Scale accelerates the development of AI within organizations of any size to deliver critical business insights and operational efficiency. Its data-centric infrastructure platform leverages RLHF (Reinforced Learning with Human Feedback) to help organizations build the strongest AI models that supercharge their business, with customers across industries including Meta, Microsoft, U.S. Army, DoD’s Defense Innovation Unit, Open AI, General Motors, Toyota Research Institute, Brex, Instacart and Flexport.

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