The opportunity
Scale's Global Public Sector team is focused on using AI to address critical challenges facing the public sector around the world. As a Staff Applied AI Engineer, you'll raise the bar for how AI gets built, governed, and evaluated across the team.
What you'll do
Define standards for responsible AI, model governance, and production MLOps: that get adopted broadly across the Global Public Sector team
Build or validate the highest-risk parts of strategic AI systems and use: those systems to establish standards other teams can adopt.
Architect AI systems designed to prevent systemic failure, and lead the: resolution of the most severe incidents tied to model safety or data integrity
Build reusable AI capabilities, such as production-ready agent: implementations built on proven architectures, fine-tuned models, or evaluation methodologies, that other engineers and clients can build on
Advise on which new AI developments are worth adopting, and help set the technical roadmap for the domain
Act as the senior technical partner to client leadership on AI strategy
What they're looking for
- Coach Senior Applied AI Engineers, delegate ownership of technical domains,: and build systems and practices that enable multiple teams to deliver safer AI
- Contribute to recruiting and representing Scale's AI work externally
- + years of engineering experience, with a multi-year track record owning AI/ML systems in production
- Experience judging the quality of training data, selecting the right: adaptation method for a given model, evaluating fine-tuning results, and balancing serving cost, latency, and quality trade-offs
