The opportunity
Scale AI’s Public Sector business is growing quickly as government agencies adopt AI to support critical national security, defense, and public sector missions. We are seeking a hands-on Engineering Manager to lead our Frontier AI Infrastructure team within Public Sector Engineering.
What you'll do
Lead, coach, and grow a team of engineers: own hiring, onboarding, performance, and career development.
Set technical direction and quarterly priorities for the inference layer, and: hold the team accountable to delivery on customer and contract commitments.
Run the operational rhythm of the team: sprint planning, on-call rotation, incident review, and postmortems.
Partner with Product, Program, and Deployed Engineering leadership to: translate customer and mission requirements into roadmap.
Represent the team in customer engagements and vendor escalations, including with government stakeholders.
Design and implement secure, scalable backend systems for Public Sector: customers, leveraging Scale's modern cloud-native AI infrastructure.
What they're looking for
- Own services and systems alongside your team, define their long-term health: goals, and improve the health of surrounding components.
- Stay in the code: review PRs, debug production issues, and take on meaningful technical work yourself.
- At least 1-2+ years of direct people management experience leading a team of: software engineers (hiring, performance management, and career development), plus a strong track record as a hands-on individual contributor.
- At least an active Secret clearance , and the ability and willingness to: up-level to TS/SCI with CI Poly. This is a requirement and candidates will not be considered who do not hold at least a Secret clearance.
