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Senior Mission Software Engineer, Public Sector

Scale AI· Public Sector Engineering
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Hybrid (Austin, TX; Colorado Springs, CO; Honolulu, HI; Omaha, NE; St. Louis, MO; Washington, DC)$223.2k - $279kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Hybrid, customer-facing role embedding with U.S. government customers to design, build, and deploy AI-enabled software solutions that support critical missions. Owns delivery from prototype to production and works closely with product and engineering to incorporate field signals into roadmap.

Responsibilities

  • Embed with government customers to understand their mission, scope the problem, and turn it into working software.
  • Own delivery end-to-end: design, build, deploy, and maintain solutions at customer sites, from prototype to stable production.
  • Build robust backend systems and data integrations that connect customer environments to Scale's platform and back.
  • Partner with product and engineering to feed field signals back into the roadmap, so the patterns you build once become capabilities the whole team can reuse.
  • Serve as the technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, guiding adoption and maximizing mission impact.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in customer-facing, forward-deployed, or government contexts.
  • Strong production coding in Python and TypeScript (or comparable modern languages).
  • Comfort across the stack, including cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containers, Linux, and networking fundamentals.
  • Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and make sound trade-offs under pressure.
  • An active TS/SCI clearance.

Skills

Required:PythonTypeScriptCloud platformsContainersLinuxNetworking fundamentalsClearance

Benefits

  • comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • a learning and development stipend
  • generous PTO
  • commuter stipend (eligible)
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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