Principal Software Engineer, GPSPosted today$46K–$183K

The opportunity

Scale’s rapidly growing Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world.

What you'll do

  • Creating custom AI applications that will impact millions of citizens

  • Generating high-quality training data for national LLMs

  • Upskilling and advisory services to spread the impact of AI

  • Take on the hardest technical problems across our programs, stepping in where: projects are stuck or the path forward is unclear

  • Lead the technical side of early engagements: work with clients to scope problems, shape proofs of concept and keep the scope needed to prove value as small as possible

  • Build working prototypes quickly, from AI agents and evaluation pipelines to: data and knowledge systems, and take the most promising ones to production

What they're looking for

  • Define the technology and architecture our solutions are built on, keeping: them cohesive, secure and reusable across clients
  • Mentor engineers across a young organisation through pairing, design and code: reviews, and set the bar for engineering excellence
  • Partner with Directors, VPs and client executives to navigate high-stakes: business and technical trade-offs, including travel to client sites as engagements require
  • Turn patterns from the field into reusable capabilities, contributing: components back to our core platform so every engagement starts further ahead