Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Public SectorNew$46K–$183K

The opportunity

At Scale, we build the AI systems behind some of the country's most important decisions. On the Public Sector Engineering team, you'll embed directly with U.

What you'll do

  • 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.

What they're looking for

  • + 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, or eligibility to obtain one.
  • Experience building or deploying systems powered by LLMs or generative models.
  • Familiarity with Node and React, Kubernetes and Docker, and Terraform.
  • Data engineering background covering ETL pipelines, data modeling, and data governance.