Description
Scale AI seeks a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer to join the Federal Engineering team. As part of this team, you will play a critical role in supporting government customers by scoping and developing onsite solutions.
The Role
We are looking for an exceptional engineer to architect and build the foundational data infrastructure serving as the brain of a project ecosystem. You will design highly novel data models and processing pipelines capable of handling massive quantities of output data from complex simulations.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect the Data Ensemble: Design and implement the architecture to ensemble various sources of injected context into a unified, highly queryable format optimized for LLM consumption.
- Massive Batch Infrastructure: Build highly scalable, resilient data architectures from scratch, optimizing for moving, transforming, and processing massive quantities of simulation output data via enormous batch jobs.
- Complex Data Modeling: Design sophisticated, highly relational data models that accurately represent massive, state-based simulation environments.
- First-Principles Problem Solving: Navigate highly ambiguous product requirements to design custom, ground-up systems.
- Technical Leadership: Set the technical standard for the data infrastructure team, driving rigorous code quality, system performance, and architectural clarity.
What We’re Looking For
- Experience: 5+ years of backend or data infrastructure experience, operating at a Senior, Staff, or Principal level.
- Engineering Excellence: Deep, expert-level proficiency in systems languages and a fundamental understanding of memory management, compute limits, and distributed systems architecture.
- High-Throughput / Low-Latency Data: Proven track record of processing massive datasets.
- Information Retrieval & Context Surfacing: Expertise in surfacing the right information to feed decision-making engines.
Nice to Have
- Security Clearance: An active Secret or TS/SCI clearance.
- Experience with LLM context optimization, vector embeddings, or agentic AI frameworks.
- Deep domain experience working with wargaming data, complex systems modeling, or distributed simulation protocols.
- Previous experience in a high-growth, 0-to-1 startup environment.
The base salary range for this full-time position in New York is: $186,400-$233,000 USD. You'll also receive benefits including comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, a learning and development stipend, and generous PTO.